G. W. Bowersock

Fiction as History. Nero to Julian

University of California Press 1994

Stron XIV+181, format: 16x24 cm

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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.

Contents



Preface    ix
Abbreviations    xiii
I    Truth in Lying    i
II    Other Peoples, Other Places    29
III    The Wounded Savior    55
IV    The Reality of Dreams    77
V    Resurrection    99
VI    Polytheism and Scripture    121
Appendixes
A Artemidorus, Oneir. 1.56    145
B The Aethiopica of Heliodorus    149

Bibliography    161
Index Locorum    169
General Index    175