The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature Book contents
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mapping Third-Century Literature from the Severans to Constantine
- Chapter 2 The End of Dialogue?
- Chapter 3 Compilation and Unity in Imperial Sympotic Traditions
- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and the Problem of Rivalry
- Chapter 5 The Lyric Tradition and Changing Hymnic Forms
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Compilation and Unity in Imperial Sympotic Traditions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Mapping Third-Century Literature from the Severans to Constantine
- Chapter 2 The End of Dialogue?
- Chapter 3 Compilation and Unity in Imperial Sympotic Traditions
- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and the Problem of Rivalry
- Chapter 5 The Lyric Tradition and Changing Hymnic Forms
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Literature in the Imperial period often displays a love of collection and compilation. The miscellanies of Aelian (both historical and animal), the crazy quilt of Clement of Alexandria’s theological musings in the Stromata and the collected biographies of Diogenes Laertius are only a few of the Severan-era examples of miscellanies. Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh have gone so far as to say that “it is sometimes hard to avoid the impression that accumulation of knowledge is the driving force of all Imperial prose literature” (König and Whitmarsh 2007: 3). And while miscellany could find a home in a variety of genres, there was one genre that was found to be particularly welcoming to the addition of bit upon bit – the Symposium.
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- The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial LiteratureMethodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century, pp. 119 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019