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Sather Classical Lectures: Fiction As History : Nero to Julian by G. W. Bowersock (1995, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520088247

ISBN-139780520088245

eBay Product ID (ePID)365414

Product Key Features

Number of Pages180 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFiction As History : Nero to Julian

Publication Year1995

SubjectAncient / General, Ancient / Rome, History & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, Ancient & Classical, Subjects & Themes / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science, History

AuthorG. W. Bowersock

SeriesSather Classical Lectures

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight16.4 Oz

Item Length6.2 in

Item Width9.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN93-049581

Dewey Edition20

Series Volume Number58

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal870.9/001

SynopsisUsing pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present were proliferating at an astonishing rate and history was being invented all over again. With force and eloquence, Bowersock illuminates social attitudes of this period and persuasively argues that its fiction was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives. Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature.

LC Classification NumberPA6019.B68 1994