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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 July 2009
      08 January 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511575464
      9780521887748
      9781108823845
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511575464
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 276 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 276 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Literature, Philosophy
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    '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, a 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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    "The book's scope--from Thucydides and Plato, to Cicero and late sympotic literature, to the rabbinic tales and the Church Fathers--is wondrous. --BMCR

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