A. D. Momigliano: Studies on Modern Scholarship

by Glen W. Bowersock

Using pagan prose fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, Bowersock investigates the complex relationship among perceived and presented "historical" and "fictional" truths. Bowersock's superb lecturing style is successfully transferred into writing with force and eloquence, as he weaves accounts from a wide range of sources into his text, illuminating social attitudes of the period and persuasively arguing that fiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520070011
• ISBN13: 9780520070011
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.