Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice

Clement of Alexandria''s Stromateis were celebrated in antiquity but modern readers have often skirted them as a messy jumble of notes. When scholarship on Greco-Roman miscellanies took off in the 1990s, Clement was left out as ''different'' because he was Christian. This book interrogates the notion of Clement''s ''Christian difference'' by comparing his work with classic Roman miscellanies, espe...