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Fiction as History: Nero to Julian

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Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present were proliferating at an astonishing rate and history was being invented all over again. With force and eloquence, Bowersock illuminates social attitudes of this period and persuasively argues that its fiction was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives.

Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature.

Language: English

Pages: 180

Format: Paperback

Release: January 04, 1995

ISBN 13: 9780520208810

Fiction as History: Nero to Julian

Glen W. Bowersock

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Language: English

Pages: 180

Format: Paperback

Release: January 04, 1995

ISBN 13: 9780520208810

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