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The End of Dialogue in Antiquity

Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, the first general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same way? Investigating dialogue goes to the heart of the central issues of power, authority, openness and playfulness in changing cultural contexts. This book analyses the relationship between literary form and cultural authority in a new and exciting way, and encourages closer reflection about the purpose of dialogue in its wider social, cultural and religious contexts in today's world.

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Title of ebook: The End of Dialogue in Antiquity
ISBN: 9780511460760
parent-ISBN: 9780521887748
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 2274 kb
Pages: 274
Published: 01-2009
Released online for download: 01-08-2009
Editor: Goldhill,Simon

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