Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Late Antique Literature
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Late Antique Literature
Editors: McGill, Scott and Watts, Edward J.
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-11-883034-5
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Image Count:
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Late Antique Literature by Language and Tradition
- Introduction
- Greek
- Latin
- Syriac
- Coptic
- Armenian
- Georgian
- Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
- Languages of Arabia
- Literary Forms
- Classicizing History and Historical Epitomes
- Ecclesiastical History
- Chronicles
- Epideictic Oratory
- Panegyric
- Epic Poetry
- Epigrams, Occasional Poetry, and Poetic Games
- Christian Poetry
- Prosimetra
- Philosophical Commentary
- Biblical Commentary
- Christian Theological Literature
- Sermons
- Travel and Pilgrimage Literature
- Biography, Autobiography, and Hagiography
- Epistolography
- Pseudepigraphy
- Legal Texts
- Handbooks, Epitomes, and Florilegia
- Grammar
- School Texts
- Literature of Knowledge
- Inscriptions
- Translation
- Antiquarian Literature
- Reception
- Late Antique Literature in Byzantium
- The Arabic Reception of Late Antique Literature
- Late Antique Literature in the Western Middle Ages
- Early Modern Receptions of Late Ancient Literature
- Edward Gibbon and Late Antique Literature
- Nineteenth‐ and Twentieth‐Century Visions of Late Antique Literature