Preposterous poetics : the politics and aesthetics of form in late antiquity / Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge.

"How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our unders...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Goldhill, Simon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Greek culture in the Roman world.
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