The Dynamics of Rhetorical Performances in Late Antiquity - Softcover

Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J.

 
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Competition among cultural elites, strategies of self-presentation and the making of religious orthodoxy often took the shape of narrations of rhetorical performances in which comments on the display of oratorical skills also incorporated moral and ethical judgments about the performer. Using texts from late antique authors (in particular, Themi

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Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (Ph.D. 2006) is Lecturer in the Department of Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain. He has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, UK (2006-2009), and was fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., US (2014-2015). His main research interests include Greek Imperial literature and the impact of rhetoric in the creation of cultural and religious identities in Late Antiquity. He has edited the volumes The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity: From Performance to Exegesis (2013) and Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts, and Interpretation (2017).

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ISBN 10:  1472474597 ISBN 13:  9781472474599
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018
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