The End of Dialogue in Antiquity.
The first general and systematic study of the genre of dialogue in antiquity, investigating why dialogue matters.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| ISBN: | 9780511463976 0511463979 1281982873 9781281982872 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Why don't Christians do dialogue?; 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.