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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100192893351
ISBN-139780192893352
eBay Product ID (ePID)9057236531
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
Publication NameGreek Dialogue in Antiquity : Post-Platonic Transformations
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorKatarzyna JażDżEwska
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2021-951163
Reviews"In Greek Dialogue in Antiquity, Katarzyna Jażdżewska challenges the traditional narrative of a decline and displacement of dialogue in post-Platonic antiquity followed by a revival of the genre in the imperial period." -- Greece & Rome, In Greek Dialogue in Antiquity, Katarzyna Jazdzewska challenges the traditional narrative of a decline and displacement of dialogue in post-Platonic antiquity followed by a revival of the genre in the imperial period., "In Greek Dialogue in Antiquity, Katarzyna Jazdzewska challenges the traditional narrative of a decline and displacement of dialogue in post-Platonic antiquity followed by a revival of the genre in the imperial period." -- Greece & Rome"In Greek Dialogue in Antiquity (hereafter GDA), Jazdzewska reconsiders the history of dialogue from Plato's immediate successors until the early Roman Imperial period." -- John Anderson, Rhea Classical Review, "In Greek Dialogue in Antiquity, Katarzyna Jazdzewska challenges the traditional narrative of a decline and displacement of dialogue in post-Platonic antiquity followed by a revival of the genre in the imperial period." -- Greece & Rome, "In Greek Dialogue in Antiquity, Katarzyna Ja:zd:zewska challenges the traditional narrative of a decline and displacement of dialogue in post-Platonic antiquity followed by a revival of the genre in the imperial period." -- Greece & Rome
Table Of ContentIntroduction1. Dialogic Entanglements2. Dialogues in Papyri3. Dialogue in the Academy4. Platonic 'Dubia' and the 'Appendix Platonica'5. Aristotle and the Peripatetics6. Other Schools and AuthorsEpilogue
SynopsisThis book examines the Greek genre of dialogue in the period after the death of Plato, between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE., Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.