Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch : Reconstructing a Lost Historian
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Dumbarton Oaks Studies
ISBN-10
0884024938
ISBN-13
9780884024934
Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Imprint
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2022
Print length
456 Pages
Weight
974 grams
Dimensions
16.80 x 23.70 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: historical, political & militaryHistoriographyEuropean history
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Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch assembles back together from clues and pieces a book that had disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. It shows how people in the distant past thought about their own history and how they discussed political and social issues across a seemingly insurmountable divide in a period of existential crisis.
Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back together a book that has disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity and place him in fourth-century Antioch. It shows how the gods could be reduced to historical characters, the powerful goddess of Luck turned into a pitiful victim of virgin sacrifice, and respected emperors defamed as despotsand, in sum, how the writing of history could be exploited for partisan purposes. We see how people in what we consider the distant past thought about their own history, and how they discussed momentous political and social issues across a seemingly insurmountable divide in a period of existential crisis.
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