Byron Macdougall - Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition

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Byron Macdougall

Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition

English · Hardback

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Gregory's festal orations are foundational for Byzantine literature. This book shows how besides his priestly role, Gregory plays that of a rhetor performing philosophy for a festival audience, channeling traditions of Classical philosophy and the Second Sophistic into Christian culture.

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Authors Byron Macdougall
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.07.2022
 
EAN 9789004521391
ISBN 978-90-04-52139-1
No. of pages 204
Weight 4677 g
Series Mnemosyne, Supplements
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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