Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium

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Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium is written by Averil Cameron and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351979094 (ISBN 10) and 9781351979092 (ISBN 13).

This is the first book to deal with the writing of literary and philosophical dialogues in Greek from the Roman empire to the end of Byzantium and beyond. Arranged in chronological order, 16 case studies combining theoretical approaches and in-depth analysis introduce a wide array of such dialogues, including consideration of the neighbouring Syriac, Georgian, and Armenian, as well as Latin traditions. The authors and genres studied include Plutarch, John Chrysostom, Maximus Confessor, the Adversus Iudaeos and apocryphal revelation dialogues, Anselm of Havelberg, Soterichos Panteugenos, Niketas ‘of Maroneia’, Theodore Prodromos, Nikephoros Gregoras, Manuel II Palaiologos, and George Scholarios.