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Dialogue was invented as a written genre by fifth-century Greeks but in the ancient Christian empire became a largely forgotten form. It raises profound questions of freedom, openness, power and authority. This volume investigates why dialogue matters.

Introduction Why don't Christians do dialogue? Simon Goldhill Goldhill, Simon 1

1 Fictions of dialogue in Thucydides Emily Greenwood Greenwood, Emily 15

2 The beginnings of dialogue: Socratic discourses and fourth-century prose Andrew Ford Ford, Andrew 29

3 Plato's dialogues and a common rationale for dialogue form Alex Long Long, Alex 45

4 Ciceronian dialogue Malcolm Schofield Schofield, Malcolm 63

5 Sympotic dialogue in the first to fifth centuries CE Jason Konig Konig, Jason 85

6 Can we talk? Augustine and the possibility of dialogue Gillian Clark Clark, Gillian 117

7 'Let's (not) talk about it': Augustine and the control of epistolary dialogue Richard Miles Miles, Richard 135

8 Christians, dialogues and patterns of sociability in late antiquity Richard Lim Lim, Richard 151

9 Boethius, Gregory the Great and the Christian 'afterlife' of classical dialogue Kate Cooper Cooper, Kate Matthew Dal Santo Santo, Matthew Dal 173

10 No dialogue at the symposium? Conviviality in Ben Sira and the Palestinian Talmud Seth Schwartz Schwartz, Seth 193

11 Dialectic and divination in the Talmud Daniel Boyarin Boyarin, Daniel 217

Bibliography 242

Index 263