The end of dialogue in antiquity / edited by Simon Goldhill.

Other author Goldhill, Simon.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Descriptionviii, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction : why don't Christians do dialogue? / Simon Goldhill -- Fictions of dialogue in Thucydides / Emily Greenwood -- The beginnings of dialogue : Socratic discourses and fourth-century prose / Andrew Ford -- Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form / Alex Long -- Ciceronian dialogue / Malcolm Schofield -- Sympotic dialogue in the first to fifth centuries CE / Jason König -- Can we talk? : Augustine and the possibility of dialogue / Gillian Clark -- 'Let's (not) talk about it' : Augustine and the control of epistolary dialogue / Richard Miles -- Christians, dialogue and patterns of sociability in late antiquity / Richard Lim -- Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian 'afterlife' of classical dialogue / Kate Cooper and Matthew Dal Santo -- No dialogue at the symposium? : conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud / Seth Schwartz -- Dialectic and divination in the Talmud / Daniel Boyarin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 242-262) and index.
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LCCN 2008040781
ISBN9780521887748
ISBN0521887747

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