| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 266 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : why don't Christians do dialogue? / Simon Goldhill -- Fictions of dialogue in Thucydides / Emily Greenwood -- The beginnings of dialogue : Socratic discourses and fourth-century prose / Andrew Ford -- Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form / Alex Long -- Ciceronian dialogue / Malcolm Schofield -- Sympotic dialogue in the first to fifth centuries CE / Jason König -- Can we talk? : Augustine and the possibility of dialogue / Gillian Clark -- 'Let's (not) talk about it' : Augustine and the control of epistolary dialogue / Richard Miles -- Christians, dialogue and patterns of sociability in late antiquity / Richard Lim -- Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian 'afterlife' of classical dialogue / Kate Cooper and Matthew Dal Santo -- No dialogue at the symposium? : conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud / Seth Schwartz -- Dialectic and divination in the Talmud / Daniel Boyarin |
| Summary |
The first general and systematic study of the genre of dialogue in antiquity, investigating why dialogue matters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-262) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dialectic.
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Dialogue.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Church history.
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Dialogue -- Religious aspects.
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dialectic.
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church history.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Church history
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Dialectic
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Dialogue
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Dialogue -- Religious aspects
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Philosophy, Ancient
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goldhill, Simon.
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| ISBN |
0511464711 |
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9780511464713 |
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9780511465451 |
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0511465459 |
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0511462387 |
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9780511462382 |
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0511575467 |
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9780511575464 |
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