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Author(s): Simon Goldhill
ISBN(s): 9780521887748, 0521887747
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.63 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521887747 

ISBN 13: 978-0521887748

Author: Simon Goldhill

‘Dialogue’ was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, a general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same way? Investigating dialogue goes to the heart of the central issues of power, authority, openness and playfulness in changing cultural contexts. This book analyses the relationship between literary form and cultural authority in a new and exciting way, and encourages closer reflection about the purpose of dialogue in its wider social, cultural and religious contexts in today’s world.

Table of contents:

PART I – CLASSICAL MODELS

  • CHAPTER 1: Fictions of Dialogue in Thucydides

  • CHAPTER 2: The Beginnings of Dialogue: Socratic Discourses and Fourth-Century Prose

  • CHAPTER 3: Plato’s Dialogues and a Common Rationale for Dialogue Form

PART II – EMPIRE MODELS

  • CHAPTER 4: Ciceronian Dialogue

  • CHAPTER 5: Sympotic Dialogue in the First to Fifth Centuries CE

PART III – CHRISTIANITY AND THE THEOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE

  • CHAPTER 6: Can We Talk? Augustine and the Possibility of Dialogue

  • CHAPTER 7: ‘Let’s (Not) Talk About It’: Augustine and the Control of Epistolary Dialogue

PART IV – CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL IMPERATIVE

  • CHAPTER 8: Christians, Dialogues, and Patterns of Sociability in Late Antiquity

  • CHAPTER 9: Boethius, Gregory the Great, and the Christian ‘Afterlife’ of Classical Dialogue

PART V – JUDAISM AND THE LIMITS OF DIALOGUE

  • CHAPTER 10: No Dialogue at the Symposium? Conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud

  • CHAPTER 11: Dialectic and Divination in the Talmud

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