Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch

Reconstructing a Lost Historian

Benjamin Garstad

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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
01 November 2022

Biography: historical, political & military; Historiography; European history

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Studies

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.

By: Benjamin Garstad
Imprint: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 975g
ISBN: 9780884024934
ISBN 10: 0884024938
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Studies
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 01 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin Garstad is Professor of Classics at MacEwan University.

Reviews for Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch: Reconstructing a Lost Historian

Garstad’s volume offers a historically coherent and lucid analysis, full of interesting insights and ideas. Bouttios and Late Antique Antioch is therefore a contribution of great relevance not only for those who wish to study Bouttios, but also for anyone who deals with fourth-century Christian literature and historiography and with the broader religious and literary polemic of the Constantinian era. -- Edoardo Garbini * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *