Christians talked, debated, and wrote dialogues in late
antiquity and on throughout Byzantium. Some were philosophical,
others more literary, theological, or Platonic; Aristotle also came
into the picture as time went on. Sometimes the written works claim
to be records of actual public debates, and we know that many such
debates did take place and continued to do so. Dialoguing in Late
Antiquity" takes up a challenge laid down by recent scholars who
argue that a wall of silence came down in the fifth century AD,
after which Christians did not "dialogue."
Averil Cameron now returns to questions raised in her book
Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire" (1991), drawing on the
large repertoire of surviving Christian dialogue texts from late
antiquity to make a forceful case for their centrality in Greek
literature from the second century and the Second Sophistic onward.
At the same time, Dialoguing in Late Antiquity" points forward to
the long and neglected history of dialogue in Byzantium. Throughout
this study, Cameron engages with current literary approaches and is
a powerful advocate for the greater integration of Christian texts
by literary scholars and historians alike.
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