Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity

by Richard Miles (Editor)

Overview

The essays in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity concern themselves with the theme of identity, an increasingly popular topic in Classical studies. Through detailed discussions of particular Roman texts and images, the contributors show not only how these texts were used to create and organise particular visions of late antique society and culture, but also how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the fashioning of 'late antiquity' into a distinct historical period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415194068
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/10/1999
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Miles is a Research Fellow in Classical Studies at the Open University, and a Teaching By-Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, Cambridge. He is currently working on a book on text and authority in the late antique North African church.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: constructing identities in late antiquity 2 The writes of passage: cultural initiation in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica 3 Gender and identity in Musaeus’ Hero and Leander 4 Prudentius’ Psychomachia: the Christian arena and the politics of display 5 Dramatic identities: tragedy in late antiquity 6 Translate into Greek: Porphyry of Tyre on the new barbarians 7 Autobiographical identity and philosophical past in Augustine’s dialogue De Libero Arbitrio 8 The destruction of statues in late antiquity 9 Women and learning: gender and identity in scenes of intellectual life on late Roman sarcophagi 10 Constructing the judge: judicial accountability and the culture of criticism in late antiquity 11 The barbarian in late antiquity: image, reality, and transformation