Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium

Averil Cameron taught at King’s College London and was subsequently Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History in Oxford and Warden of Keble College. She held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to work on Greek dialogues in late antiquity and Byzantium. Niels Gaul is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction AVERIL CAMERON AND NIELS GAUL1 Plutarch’s dialogues: beyond the Platonic example? ELENI KECHAGIA-OVSEIKO2 Erostrophus, a Syriac dialogue with Socrates on the soul ALBERTO RIGOLIO3 The rhetorical mechanisms of John Chrysostom’s On Priesthood ALBERTO J. QUIROGA PUERTAS4 Literary distance and complexity in late antique and early Byzantine Greek dialogues Adversus Iudaeos PATRICK ANDRIST5 Prepared for all occasions: the Trophies of Damascus and the Bonwetsch Dialogue PETER VAN NUFFELEN6 New wine in old wineskin: Byzantine reuses of the apocryphal revelation dialogue PÉTER TÓTH7 Dialogical pedagogy and the structuring of emotions in LiberAsceticus IOANNIS PAPADOGIANNAKIS8 Anselm of Havelberg’s controversies with the Greeks: a moment in the scholastic culture of disputation ALEX J. NOVIKOFF9 A Platonising dialogue from the twelfth century: the logos of Soterichos Panteugenos FOTEINI SPINGOU10 The six dialogues by Niketas ‘of Maroneia’: a contextualising introduction ALESSANDRA BUCOSSI11 Theodore Prodromos in the Garden of Epicurus ERIC CULLHED12 ‘Let us not obstruct the possible’: dialoguing in medieval Georgia NIKOLOZ ALEKSIDZE13 Embedded dialogues and dialogical voices in Palaiologan prose and verse NIELS GAUL14 Nikephoros Gregoras’s Philomathes and Phlorentios DIVNA MANOLOVA15 Dramatisation and narrative in late Byzantine dialogues:Manuel II Palaiologos’s On Marriage and Mazaris’ Journey to Hades FLORIN LEONTE16 Form and content in the dialogues of Gennadios Scholarios GEORGE KARAMANOLISBibliography Index