Overview
Competition among cultural elites, strategies of self-presentation and the making of religious orthodoxy often took the shape of narrations of rhetorical performances in which comments on the display of oratorical skills also incorporated moral and ethical judgments about the performer. Using texts from late antique authors (in particular, Themistius, Synesius of Cyrene, and Libanius of Antioch), this book proposes that this type of narrative should be understood as a valuable way to decipher the cultural and religious landscape of the fourth century AD.
- | Author: Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Oct 30, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 172 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1472474597
- | ISBN-13: 9781472474599
