Constructing identities in late antiquity / / edited by Richard Miles

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 937
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Classical; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Christianity - Rome - Influence
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Cultural policy; Rome History Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries
• Altri autori: MilesRichard <1969->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- Constructing identities in late antiquity / Richard Miles -- chapter 2 The writes of passage: cultural initiation in Heliodorus Aethiopica -- Cultural initiation in Heliodorus / Aethiopica Tim Whitmarsh -- chapter 3 GENDER AND IDENTITY IN MUSAEUS HERO AND LEANDER / Helen Morales -- chapter 4 PRUDENTIUS PSYCHOMACHIA -- The Christian arena and the politics of display / Paula James -- chapter 5 DRAMATIC IDENTITIES -- Tragedy in late antiquity / Pat Easterling -- chapter 6 TRANSLATE INTO GREEK -- Porphyry of Tyre on the new barbarians / Gillian Clark -- chapter 7 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL IDENTITY AND PHILOSOPHICAL PAST IN AUGUSTINE'S DIALOGUE DE LIBERO ARBITRIO / Simon Harrison -- chapter 8 THE DESTRUCTION OF STATUES IN LATE ANTIQUITY / Peter Stewart -- chapter 9 WOMEN AND LEARNING -- Gender and identity in scenes of intellectual life on late Roman sarcophagi / Janet Huskinson -- chapter 10 CONSTRUCTING THE JUDGE -- Judicial accountability and the culture of criticism in late antiquity / Jill Harries -- chapter 11 THE BARBARIAN IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- Image, reality, and transformation / Peter Heather.
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines the theme of identity: geographic, ethnic, religious, status and sex-based. Discussions of Roman texts and images show how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the creation of late antiquity" as a historical concept."
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructing identities in late antiquity
• ISBN: 1-134-64991-6; 0-415-19406-7; 1-134-64992-4; 1-280-33440-1; 0-203-26035-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812180503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II