by Scott McGill
Table of Contents
Cover
PART ONE: LATE ANTIQUE LITERATURE BY LANGUAGE AND TRADITION Introduction REFERENCES
CHAPTER ONE: Greek REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWO: Latin 2.1 Panegyric and Secular Oratory
2.2 Sermons
2.3 Philosophy
2.4 Secular Verse
2.5 Religious Verse
2.6 Letter Writing
2.7 History Writing
2.8 Christian History and Hagiography
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THREE: Syriac 3.1 Biblical Commentary
3.2 Poetry
3.3 Theology
3.4 Biography and Hagiography
3.5 Rhetoric and Epistolography
3.6 Historiography
3.7 Philosophy and Translation
REFERENCES
CHAPTER FOUR: Coptic 4.1 The Problems of “Coptic Literature” and its History
4.2 Translation and the Origins of Coptic Literature
4.3 Original Coptic Literature: From Pachomius and Shenoute to the Muslim Conquest
REFERENCES
CHAPTER FIVE: Armenian 5.1 Ecclesiastical and Theological Works in Prose
5.2 Historians
REFERENCES
CHAPTER SIX: Georgian 6.1 Earliest Original Georgian Literature: Hagiography
6.2 Christian Kʻartʻli and the Iranian Commonwealth
6.3 Conversion Stories and Acculturating Parthians
6.4 The Dawn of Georgian Historiography: Hambavi mepʻet ʻa
6.5 Christian History in Iranic Colors
REFERENCES
CHAPTER SEVEN: Middle Persian (Pahlavi) 7.1 Commentary on the Avesta
7.2 Philosophical and Debate Texts
7.3 Apocalyptic and Visionary Texts
7.4 Didactic Texts
7.5 Geographical and Epic Texts
7.6 Legal Texts
7.7 Cultural Texts
7.8 Dictionaries
7.9 Christian and Manichaean Literature in Middle Persian
7.10 Pahlavi Literature in Contact with Greek and Sanskrit Literature and Islam
7.11 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER EIGHT: Languages of Arabia REFERENCES
PART TWO: LITERARY FORMS CHAPTER NINE: Classicizing History and Historical Epitomes REFERENCES
CHAPTER TEN: Ecclesiastical History 10.1 Origins
10.2 Genre
10.3 History and Theology
10.4 Development
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
REFERENCES
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Chronicles 11.1 Introduction
11.2 Consularia
11.3 Chronicles
11.4 Chronicles after the Sixth Century
ABBREVIATIONS
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWELVE: Epideictic Oratory 12.1 What Do We Mean by “Epideictic”?
12.2 Topoi
12.3 Some Social Aspects of Epideictic
12.4 An Epithalamium
12.5 Monody
12.6 Epitaphios
12.7 Festal Oration
12.8 Pure Sophistry?
12.9 Conclusion
ADDENDUM
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Panegyric REFERENCES
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Epic Poetry 14.1 Greek Epic
14.2 Latin Epic
REFERENCES
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Epigrams, Occasional Poetry, and Poetic Games REFERENCES
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Christian Poetry 16.1 Greek Christian Poetry
16.2 Latin Christian Poetry
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
REFERENCES
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Prosimetra 17.1 Introduction
17.2 Popular Origins of Mixed‐Meter Satire
17.3 The Extraordinary Verses of Consolation
17.4 Literary Shifts in the Second Century
17.5 The Evidence of Sympotic Literature
17.6 Conclusion: Two Pre‐Boethian, Two Post‐Boethian Traditions
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
REFERENCES
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Philosophical Commentary 18.1 Background
18.2 Commentary and Exegesis
18.3 Forms of Commentary
18.4 Techniques and Strategies
18.5 Defining the Commentator
18.6 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Biblical Commentary 19.1 Introduction
19.2 Origins and Development
19.3 About Literature
19.4 Survey
19.5 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY: Christian Theological Literature 20.1 Some Preliminary Remarks: “Christian,” “Theological,” “Literature”
20.2 Approaching Late Antiquity: The Emergence of Christian Theological Literature
20.3 The “Long Fourth Century”: Toward an Orthodox Theology of the “Fathers”
20.4 Consolidation and Reception toward the End of Late Antiquity
20.5 Summary and Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Sermons 21.1 Origins of Sermons
21.2 Sermons as a Genre
21.3 The Influence of Classical Rhetoric
21.4 Advice about Sermons
21.5 The Preachers and their Audiences
21.6 Shorthand Writers and the Preservation of Sermons
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Travel and Pilgrimage Literature 22.1 Letters
22.2 Religious Travel
22.3 Itineraries
22.4 Maps
22.5 Periegeseis and Periploi
22.6 Historiography
22.7 Vitae
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: Biography, Autobiography, and Hagiography 23.1 Introduction
23.2 Autobiography
23.3 Biography
23.4 Hagiography
23.5 Monastic Tales
23.6 Martyr Texts
23.7 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Epistolography 24.1 Letter Collections in theLater Roman World
24.2 Innovation and the Late Antique Letter Collection
24.3 Innovation in the Individual Letter
24.4 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Pseudepigraphy 25.1 Introduction
25.2 Origins of Pseudepigrapha in Antiquity
25.3 Late Antique Pseudepigrapha
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Legal Texts 26.1 Introduction
26.2 Legal Texts in Late Antiquity: Forms and Problems
26.3 Language and Style in Late Antique Imperial Legislation
26.4 Legal Texts and Panegyric
26.5 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Handbooks, Epitomes, and Florilegia 27.1 Introduction and General Remarks
27.2 New Genres and Christianity?
27.3 The Range of Abbreviated and Condensed Texts
27.4 Handbook and Florilegium
27.5 Other Forms of Compilation
27.6 Epitome – the Transformation of Texts into a New and Condensed Form
27.7 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: Grammar 28.1 A Textual Typology for Latin Grammar in Late Antiquity
28.2 Sublexical Level
28.3 Morpholexical Level
28.4 Vices and Virtues of Expression: Between Rhetoric and Grammar
28.5 Syntax
28.6 Lexicon, Lexica
28.7 Metrics
28.8 Interpretari
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: School Texts 29.1 Introduction
29.2 Th
e “Fragments” of Late Antique Literature
29.3 The “Forms” of Late Antique Literary Architecture
29.4 Classroom Practice
29.5 Audience
29.6 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTY: Literature of Knowledge 30.1 Competition
30.2 Fighting, Grafting, and Healing
30.3 The Pursuit of Practicability
30.4 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Inscriptions 31.1 Agency and Identity
31.2 Editions
31.3 Sources
31.4 Texts
31.5 Images
31.6 Audiences and Reception
ABBREVIATIONS
ONLINE RESOURCES
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Translation 32.1 Philosophy, Medicine, Rhetoric, and Grammar
32.2 Law
32.3 Poetry
32.4 Prose Fiction
32.5 Scripture
32.6 Parabiblical Texts
32.7 Theology
32.8 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Antiquarian Literature 33.1 Presenting the Past
33.2 Perspectives on the Past
33.3 Past and Present
REFERENCES
FURTHER READING
PART THREE: RECEPTION CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Late Antique Literature in Byzantium 34.1 Continuation
34.2 Absorption
34.3 Rewriting
34.4 Replicating Authorial Personae
34.5 Literary Criticism
REFERENCES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The Arabic Reception of Late Antique Literature REFERENCES
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: Late Antique Literature in the Western Middle Ages REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Early Modern Receptions of Late Ancient Literature 37.1 Introduction
37.2 Encountering Late Ancient Texts in the Early Modern Context
37.3 Erasmus and Jerome
37.4 Conclusion
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Edward Gibbon and Late Antique Literature 38.1 Gibbon’s Reading of Late Antique Literature
38.2 A Case Study: Ammianus Marcellinus
38.3 Concluding Thoughts on Decline
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
REFERENCES
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Visions of Late Antique Literature 39.1 Decadent and Aesthetic Late Antique Literatures
39.2 Modernist and “Beat” Late Antique Literatures
39.3 Present and Future Late Antique Literatures
REFERENCES
FURTHER READING
Index
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List of Tables
Chapter 28 Table 28.1 Consentius’s De barbarismis et metaplasmis.
List of Illustrations
Chapter 31 Figure 31.1 Edition of inscription in the Forum of Trajan, Rome.
Figure 31.2 Translation of inscription in the Forum of Trajan, Rome.
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