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Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch

Reconstructing a Lost Historian

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$55.00 • £47.95 • €50.95

ISBN 9780884024934

Publication Date: 11/01/2022

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456 pages

6-1/4 x 9-1/4 inches

1 illus., 1 color illus., 1 map, 1 table

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Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back together a book that had disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity and place him in fourth-century Antioch. It shows how the gods could be reduced to historical characters, the powerful goddess of luck turned into a pitiful victim of virgin sacrifice, and respected emperors defamed as despots—and, in sum, how the writing of history could be exploited for partisan purposes. We see how people in what we consider the distant past thought about their own history, and how they discussed momentous political and social issues across a seemingly insurmountable divide in a period of existential crisis.

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