IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 319: Social and Literary Authority in Late Antiquity, III: Inscribing Authority
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Postgraduate & Early-Career Late Antiquity Network |
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Organiser: | Ben Kybett, Department of Classics University of Cambridge |
Moderator/Chair: | Ben Kybett, Department of Classics University of Cambridge |
Paper 319-a | 'Patres imposce benignos': Prefatory Expressions of Authority through Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Social History |
Paper 319-b | The Scriptural Authority of Late Antique Biblical Epics (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Paper 319-c | What Authority?: The Law and the Creation of Curse Tablets in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Pagan Religions, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session will explore how inscribed authority was employed and understood within the late antique world. The first paper (Trovato) discusses the expressions of authority within the prefaces of Latin texts and how these can inform our understandings of the author's own perceptions of different types of authority. The second paper (Downey) considers how the use of Classical forms and genres lends authority to new, Christian epics and what this means for the wider compositions of biblical epics. The final paper (Spence) investigates the creation of curse-tablets and whether or not these were controlled by a legal authority. |