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List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
AVERIL CAMERON AND NIELS GAUL
1 Plutarch’s dialogues: beyond the Platonic example?
ELENI KECHAGIA-OVSEIKO
2 Erostrophus, a Syriac dialogue with Socrates on the soul
ALBERTO RIGOLIO
3 The rhetorical mechanisms of John Chrysostom’s On Priesthood
ALBERTO J. QUIROGA PUERTAS
4 Literary distance and complexity in late antique and early Byzantine Greek dialogues Adversus Iudaeos
PATRICK ANDRIST
5 Prepared for all occasions: the Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue
PETER VAN NUFFELEN
6 New wine in old wineskin: Byzantine reuses of the apocryphal revelation dialogue
PÉTER TÓTH
7 Dialogical pedagogy and the structuring of emotions in Liber
Asceticus
IOANNIS PAPADOGIANNAKIS
8 Anselm of Havelberg’s controversies with the Greeks: a moment in the scholastic culture of disputation
ALEX J. NOVIKOFF
9 A Platonising dialogue from the twelfth century: the logos of Soterichos Panteugenos
FOTEINI SPINGOU
10 The six dialogues by Niketas ‘of Maroneia’: a contextualising introduction
ALESSANDRA BUCOSSI
11 Theodore Prodromos in the Garden of Epicurus
ERIC CULLHED
12 ‘Let us not obstruct the possible’: dialoguing in medieval Georgia
NIKOLOZ ALEKSIDZE
13 Embedded dialogues and dialogical voices in Palaiologan prose and verse
NIELS GAUL
14 Nikephoros Gregoras’s Philomathes and Phlorentios
DIVNA MANOLOVA
15 Dramatisation and narrative in late Byzantine dialogues:
Manuel II Palaiologos’s On Marriage and Mazaris’ Journey to Hades
FLORIN
About the author
Averil Cameron was Warden of Keble College Oxford from 1994 to 2010 and formerly Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Kings College London. She is currently the chair of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, UK. Her most recent books are Byzantine Matters (2014), Dialoguing in Late Antiquity (2014) and Arguing It Out. Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium (2016).
Niels Gaul is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK and the author of Thomas Magistros und die spätbyzantinische Sophistik (2011).
Summary
This is the ?rst book to deal with the writing of literary and philosophical dialogues in Greek from the Roman empire to the end of Byzantium and beyond. Arranged in chronological order, 16 case studies combining theoretical approaches and in-depth analysis introduce a wide array of such dialogues, including consideration of the neighbouring Syr
