'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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