RT Book
T1 Orosius and the rhetoric of history
T2 Oxford early Christian studies
A1 Nuffelen, Peter van 1976-
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2012
ED 1. ed.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1620126451
AB Shows how Orosius situates himself in the classical tradition and draws on a variety of rhetorical tools to shape his historical narrative, The histories against the pagans, written in 415/7, and position the Church at the heart of his view of Roman history
AB Unexpected pearls : prefaces and the rhetoric of deference -- A tale of two cities : book 2 and the fall of Rome -- The past as literature : exempla and the culture of rhetoric -- (Re)sources of narrative -- A sense of the past : the truth of rhetoric -- A past for the present : on metaphors and panegyric -- Beyond Rome : universal history and the barbarian -- What difference does Christianity make?
NO Literaturverz. S. [207] - 234. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
NO Rezeption; Rezension (Review): Revue d'études augustiniennes et patristiques 62 (2016) 140-142 (J.-D. Berger)
CN DG205
SN 9780198745013
SN 9780199655274
K1 Orosius, Paulus : Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII
K1 Orosius, Paulus : 385-418
K1 Rhetoric, Ancient
K1 Rome : Historiography