McGill Scott - A Companion to Late Antique Literature

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This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises approximately 25 and 40 concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

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A Companion to Late Antique Literature
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Scott McGill and Edward J. Watts

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Names: McGill, Scott, 1968 editor. | Watts, Edward Jay, 1975 editor.
Title: A companion to late antique literature / edited by Scott McGill, Edward J. Watts.
Description: New York : Wiley, 2018. | Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018004193 (print) | LCCN 2018005932 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118830369 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118830352 (epub) | ISBN 9781118830345 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Latin literatureHistory and criticism. | Greek literatureHistory and criticism. | Christian literature, EarlyHistory and criticism. | Literature, MedievalHistory and criticism. | Middle Eastern literatureHistory and criticism.
Classification: LCC PN641 (ebook) | LCC PN641 .C657 2018 (print) | DDC 809/.021dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018004193

Cover image: School scene, circa 190, courtesy of GDKE-Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. Photograph INTERFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo
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Charles N. Aull holds a PhD in History from Indiana University. His research focuses on political and legal history.

Han Baltussen is the Walter W. Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has held fellowships at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has published books on Theophrastus (2000), Simplicius (2008), the Peripatetics (2016), and coedited volumes on ancient commentaries (2004), consolations (2012), and selfcensorship (2013). He is currently preparing a study of consolation strategies in antiquity and a new translation of Eunapiuss Lives of Philosophers and Sophists.

David Brakke is Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History at the Ohio State University. He has published books and essays on early Egyptian Christianity, monasticism, and Gnosticism, including