Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch

Name: Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch
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SKU: 9780884024934
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Reconstructing a Lost Historian

By Benjamin Garstad

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Studies

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Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch explores the reconstruction of a lost ancient text, revealing how historical narratives were shaped and manipulated in fourth-century Antioch. The work demonstrates the transformation of deities into historical figures and the portrayal of emperors as tyrants, offering insight into the political and social debates during a time of existential crisis.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in ancient history, historiography, and the social dynamics of Late Antiquity, particularly those fascinated by the cultural and political upheavals of fourth-century Antioch.

Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch assembles back together from clues and pieces a book that had disappeared from our library of Greek and Roman works. It shows how people in the distant past thought about their own history and how they discussed political and social issues across a seemingly insurmountable divide in a period of existential crisis.

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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 has 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.