Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch

Reconstructing a Lost Historian
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-88402-493-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Studies

Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back together a book that has disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity and place him in fourth-century Antioch. It shows how the gods could be reduced to historical characters, the powerful goddess of luck turned into a pitiful victim of virgin sacrifice, and respected emperors defamed as despots—and, in sum, how the writing of history could be exploited for partisan purposes. We see how people in what we consider the distant past thought about their own history, and how they discussed momentous political and social issues across a seemingly insurmountable divide in a period of existential crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garstad, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Über Autor(innen)

Garstad, Benjamin
Benjamin Garstad is Professor of Classics at MacEwan University.