Miles R. (ed.) Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity

London – New York: Routledge, 1999. – 273 p. – (Routledge classical monographs).
ISBN: 0-415-19406-7 (Print Edition)
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ISBN: 0-203-20286-4 (Glassbook Format)The essays in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity concern themselves with the theme of identity, an increasingly popular topic in Classical studies. Through detailed discussions of particular Roman texts and images, the contributors show not only how these texts were used to create and organise particular visions of late antique society and culture, but also how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the fashioning of 'late antiquity' into a distinct historical period.Acknowledgements
List of figures
Notes on contributorsRichard Miles. Introduction: constructing identities in late antiquity
Tim Whitmarsh. The writes of passage: cultural initiation in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica
Helen Morales. Gender and identity in Musaeus’ Hero and Leander
Paula James. Prudentius’ Psychomachia: the Christian arena and the politics of display
Pat Easterling, Richard Miles. Dramatic identities: tragedy in late antiquity
Gillian Clark. Translate into Greek: Porphyry of Tyre on the new barbarians
Simon Harrison. Autobiographical identity and philosophical past in Augustine’s dialogue De Libero Arbitrio
Peter Stewart. The destruction of statues in late antiquity
Janet Huskinson. Women and learning: gender and identity in scenes of intellectual life on late Roman sarcophagi
Jill Harries. Constructing the judge: judicial accountability and the culture of criticism in late antiquity
Peter Heather. The barbarian in late antiquity: image, reality, and transformation