Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity

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.

• 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