Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (Sather Classical Lectures Volume Fifty-eight)

University of California Press 1994,

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Author

Bowersock G. W.

Publishers

University of California Press 1994

Keyword

Classica Ancient Rome Greece

Cover description

Very Good

Binding description

Dust jacket

Yes

State of preservation

Very Good

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

8vo, hardcover in dj, xii-181'pp. General Index. Sather Classical Lectures Vol. 58 0.8 x 9 x 5.9 Inches 180 pages Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present were proliferating at an astonishing rate and history was being invented all over again. With force and eloquence, Bowersock illuminates social attitudes of this period and persuasively argues that its fiction was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives.Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature.