Greek Literature and Society in Late Antiquity
A special issue of Literature (ISSN 2410-9789).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 14706
Special Issue Editor
Interests: late antique Greek and early Byzantine literature (Nonnus, Nonnian School); religion and Greek mythology (especially oracles, Dionysus and Pythagoreanism); classical tradition and history of Platonism (laws and Neoplatonism)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I hope that you are doing well. I am writing to you still in this pandemic situation and hope to be able to reestablish our research contact in themes of late antique Greek literature. I am pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Literature, a new open access international journal which is gaining attention.
The aim of this Special Issue is precisely that of promoting our research area and to offer some thoughts on its latest trends. Greek literature in late antiquity, both prose and poetry, has been traditionally neglected in the field of classics; luckily, and thanks to the outstanding work of scholars such as yourself, this situation is swiftly changing. As you well know this is a particularly booming area in recent years, but much work still has to be done in order to spread its importance. There is, for example, an increasing number of collective monographs on this issue, the majority stemming from international congresses; however, there are not so many monographic issues of journals devoted to late antique Greek literature.
Thus, this Special Issue aims to fill the gap in this regard and add a series of valuable and open access scholarly contributions to our field. Our general purpose is to address some new perspectives of research in the field of Greek literature in late antiquity, with particular reference to the social reflections of literature in its context. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Greek literature in interaction with the social context of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- Greek literature in the dynamics between the Eastern capital and the provincial cities.
- Greek literature between Christian themes and traditional pagan or mythological themes.
- Greek literature in relation to the late antique schools of rhetoric.
- Greek literature in relation to the late antique schools of philosophy.
- Greek literature in the political and courtly context of the Eastern Empire.
- Greek literature in the context of the Eastern Church or in relation with theology.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. David Hernández de la Fuente
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- late antique Greek poetry
- late antique Greek prose
- late antique Greek rhetoric and literature
- late antique Greek philosophy and literature
- Greek literature and society in late antiquity
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