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Dioscorus of Aphrodito. His Work and His Worldby Mac Coull, Leslie S. B
Book desription: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: Univeristy of California Press, 1988. Hardcover 9" x 6". 185pp. Light grey cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. In original decorative black and tan dust jacket with minor rubbing; a near fine copy. Illustrated with black and white photos. Dioscorus of Aphrodito was a sixth century Coptic lawyer and poet. Mac Coull 's detailed analyses with the original papyri presents a comprehensive picture of Dioscorus and his times. Poetry he wrote for special occasions and documents he procuded in his legal career in Greek and Coptic reflect the major preoccupations of Dioscorus' society and his age: the nature of Byzantine imperial government, the patronage of the powerful elite, and the spirituality of the Egyptian Christian church. He epitomizes the little known cultural flowering of the late antique Egypt, which is now seen not as a place of sterility and decadence, but as the home of a strikingly original and creative culture whose subsequent eclipse still remains unexplained.
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