Petition and performance in ancient Rome: the Apologies of Justin Martyr
"The system of petition and response was part and parcel of life in the Roman Empire. This book contextualizes Justin Martyr's Apologies within this system of petition and response, arguing that Justin, in a fertile moment in the history of administrative practice, took a well-scripted for...
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| Summary: | "The system of petition and response was part and parcel of life in the Roman Empire. This book contextualizes Justin Martyr's Apologies within this system of petition and response, arguing that Justin, in a fertile moment in the history of administrative practice, took a well-scripted form of imperial supplication and public display and boldly transformed it into a uniquely stylized statement of voiced injustice and Christian transparency. Using the heuristic of performance, this book not only compares the Apologies to extant petitions but draws attention to Justin's strategies of elaboration and to the qualities of his work as a staged enactment within wider political, social, and literary contexts. The result is a reading of the Apologies as an opportunistic combination of petitionary, apologetic, and protreptic discourses by which Justin sought to address both his procedural objections to Christian trials and the popular and philosophical prejudices of his learned contemporaries"-- |
| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 2016, titled Petition and performance in the Apologies of Justin Martyr |
| Physical Description: | xv, 276 Seiten |
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| adam_text | Table of Contents Acknowledgments............................................................................ ix Abbreviations................................................................................... xi Ancient Texts.....................................................................xii Additional Corpora and Editions.......................................xv Introduction: Petition and Performance........................................... i Mise-en-scène..............................................................................i Scope and Contributions of this Study..................................... 4 Petition and Performance........................................................ ю Chapter i. Justin’s Performance Context: Petition and Response in the Roman Empire.............................................................. 19 The Administrative Context of the Apologies.......................... 19 Building a Generic Inventory: Example Petitions.................... 32 SIGi 820: Petition to the Proconsul of Asia (88/9 CE)....... 35 SB XVI12678: Petitions to a Regional Governor (1epistrategos) and the Prefect of Egypt (179 CE)...........36 Skaptopara: Petition to Emperor Gordianus III (238 CE) ...38 P.Euphrates 1: Petition to the Prefect of Mesopotamia (HICE)........................................................................ 43 A Generic Inventory for Administrative Petitions.................. 46 Request.............................................................................. 46 Administrative
Context......................................................48 Form and Structure............................................................49 Length................................................................................. 55 Rhetorical and Argumentative Strategies........................... 56 Conclusion............................................................................... 64
VI Petition and Performance in Ancient Rome Chapter 2. Literary Self-Description in the Apologies...................... 65 Generic Description in the Apologies........................................66 The Language of Petition: εντευξις, άξίωσις, and βιβλίίιον .. 68 The Language of Address and Declaration: Προσφώνησις 86 The Language of Exposition: Έξήγησις....................................97 The Language of Composition: Σύνταξις and Other De scriptors ..............................................................................IOI ‘Conversing in Writing with Caesar’ {Dial. 120.6)................. 106 Conclusion................................................................................. 107 Chapter 3. A Literary Comparison of the Apologies with Admin istrative Petitions...................................................................... 109 Request: Combining the Work of a Petition with a Strategy from Classical Oratory...................................................... no Administrative Context: Invocations of Procedural Proto cols..................................................................................... 120 The Medium as Message: Justin’s Emphasis on Public Display......................................................................... 124 Administrative Context in the Early Christian Reception of the Apologies............................................................132 Form and Structure: The Opening Address in 1 Apoi. 1.1...... 136 Length: The Significance of Size.............................................. 144 Atacrologia as a
Performative Gesture................................145 A Monumental Performance: The Case of Diogenes of Oinoanda.................................................................... 149 Rhetorical and Argumentative Strategies: Petitionary Tropes in the Apologies................................................................... 152 Conclusion..................................................................................158 Chapter 4. Generic Hybridity in the Apologies................................ 161 The Apologies as a Speech of Defense (απολογητικός λόγος)................................................................................ ւ6շ Forensic Situational Context.............................................. 166 Forensic Argumentative Strategies and Issue Theory...... 173 Apologetic Rhetorical Commonplaces.............................. 179 The Apologies as a Speech of Philosophical Exhortation (προτρεπτικός λόγος).......................................................184 Self-Description as a Protreptic Text..................................188 The Protreptic Aims of the Apologies.................................189 Protreptic Commonplaces in the Apologies........................195
Table of Contents vii The Apologies and Generic Hybridity......................................201 Hybridity and the Marks of Literary Sophistication...... 208 Genre-Bending, Philosophy, and the Performance of Supplication................................................................. 211 Conclusion................................................................................. 221 Conclusion: Summary of the Argument.........................................223 Appendix: How Many Apologies Did Justin Write?.....................227 External Evidence...................................................................... 228 Internal Evidence.......................................................................233 Bibliography......................................................................................247 General Index.....................................................................................267
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments. ix Abbreviations. xi Ancient Texts.xii Additional Corpora and Editions.xv Introduction: Petition and Performance. i Mise-en-scène.i Scope and Contributions of this Study. 4 Petition and Performance. ю Chapter i. Justin’s Performance Context: Petition and Response in the Roman Empire. 19 The Administrative Context of the Apologies. 19 Building a Generic Inventory: Example Petitions. 32 SIGi 820: Petition to the Proconsul of Asia (88/9 CE). 35 SB XVI12678: Petitions to a Regional Governor (1epistrategos) and the Prefect of Egypt (179 CE).36 Skaptopara: Petition to Emperor Gordianus III (238 CE) .38 P.Euphrates 1: Petition to the Prefect of Mesopotamia (HICE). 43 A Generic Inventory for Administrative Petitions. 46 Request. 46 Administrative
Context.48 Form and Structure.49 Length. 55 Rhetorical and Argumentative Strategies. 56 Conclusion. 64
VI Petition and Performance in Ancient Rome Chapter 2. Literary Self-Description in the Apologies. 65 Generic Description in the Apologies.66 The Language of Petition: εντευξις, άξίωσις, and βιβλίίιον . 68 The Language of Address and Declaration: Προσφώνησις 86 The Language of Exposition: Έξήγησις.97 The Language of Composition: Σύνταξις and Other De scriptors .IOI ‘Conversing in Writing with Caesar’ {Dial. 120.6). 106 Conclusion. 107 Chapter 3. A Literary Comparison of the Apologies with Admin istrative Petitions. 109 Request: Combining the Work of a Petition with a Strategy from Classical Oratory. no Administrative Context: Invocations of Procedural Proto cols. 120 The Medium as Message: Justin’s Emphasis on Public Display. 124 Administrative Context in the Early Christian Reception of the Apologies.132 Form and Structure: The Opening Address in 1 Apoi. 1.1. 136 Length: The Significance of Size. 144 Atacrologia as a
Performative Gesture.145 A Monumental Performance: The Case of Diogenes of Oinoanda. 149 Rhetorical and Argumentative Strategies: Petitionary Tropes in the Apologies. 152 Conclusion.158 Chapter 4. Generic Hybridity in the Apologies. 161 The Apologies as a Speech of Defense (απολογητικός λόγος). ւ6շ Forensic Situational Context. 166 Forensic Argumentative Strategies and Issue Theory. 173 Apologetic Rhetorical Commonplaces. 179 The Apologies as a Speech of Philosophical Exhortation (προτρεπτικός λόγος).184 Self-Description as a Protreptic Text.188 The Protreptic Aims of the Apologies.189 Protreptic Commonplaces in the Apologies.195
Table of Contents vii The Apologies and Generic Hybridity.201 Hybridity and the Marks of Literary Sophistication. 208 Genre-Bending, Philosophy, and the Performance of Supplication. 211 Conclusion. 221 Conclusion: Summary of the Argument.223 Appendix: How Many Apologies Did Justin Write?.227 External Evidence. 228 Internal Evidence.233 Bibliography.247 General Index.267 |
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