What If? / ¿Y si...?

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  • ISBN 9781636672373
  • Weight: 385g
  • Publication Date: 16 Feb 2026
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This volume explores counterfactual episodes (“what would have happened if…?”) in the literature of the Roman Empire in the Imperial, Late Antique, and Byzantine periods. In the first study of its kind, the authors engage with writers including Plutarch, the emperor Julian and Nonnus of Panopolis to understand how they imagined alternative pasts and futures. A landmark new edited collection, it will be of interest of all those studying the literature and cultural history of the Mediterranean in the first millennium.

Este volumen estudia episodios contrafactuales («¿qué habría pasado si...?») en la literatura greco-romana de los periodos imperial, tardoantiguo y bizantino. Se trata del primer estudio de este tipo, en el que se analiza la obra de escritores como Plutarco, el emperador Juliano o Nono de Panópolis para comprender cómo imaginaban pasados y futuros alternativos. Se trata de una obra de referencia que resultará de interés para todos aquellos que estudian la literatura y la historia cultural del Mediterráneo en el primer milenio.

Alberto J. Quiroga’s research interests include Greek imperial literature and late antique rhetoric.

Alberto J. Quiroga investiga sobre literatura griega imperial y retórica tardo-antigua.

Mattia Chiriatti’s research interests include the study of Christian literature, Byzantine history and the evolution of female power in Late Antiquity.

Mattia Chiriatti investiga sobre literatura cristiana, historia bizantina y la evolución del poder femenino en la Antigüedad tardía.