Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch: Reconstructing a Lost Historian Garstad Benjamin
Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch: Reconstructing a Lost Historian Garstad Benjamin Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch undertakes the exciting, if laborious, task of assembling clues and piecing back…
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Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch: Reconstructing a Lost Historian Garstad Benjamin
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. 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. But it does not merely add another author to the bibliography of antiquity and place him in fourth-century Antioch.
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