Studies on Greek and Roman History and Literature
Author | : Baldwin |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2023-11-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004673091 |
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Author | : Baldwin |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2023-11-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004673091 |
Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199271375 |
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). This literature should not be dismissed as unoriginal and mediocre. Rather, its central preoccupations, especially mimesis and paideia, provide significant insights into the definition of Greek identity during the period. Focusing upon a series of key texts by important authors (including Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, Philostratus, Lucian, Favorinus, and the novelists), Whitmarsh argues that narratives telling of educated Greeks' philosophical advice to empowered Romans (including emperors) offer a crucial point of entry into the complex and often ambivalent relationships between Roman conquerors and Greek subjects. Their authors' rich and complex engagement with the literary past articulates an ingenious and sophisticated response to their present socio-political circumstances.
Author | : Consuelo Ruiz-Montero |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2020-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527546594 |
Orality was the backbone of ancient Greek culture throughout its different periods. This volume will serve to deepen the reader’s knowledge of how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire. The studies included here approach the subject from both a literary and a sociocultural point of view, illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices. Topics considered include epigraphy, the rhetoric of transmitting the texts, language and speech, performance, theatre, narrative representation, material culture, and the interaction of different cultures. Since orality is a widespread phenomenon in the Greek-speaking world of the Roman Empire, this book draws the reader’s attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.
Author | : Oliver Taplin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Classical literature |
ISBN | : 9780192100207 |
The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.
Author | : Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520204836 |
Gruen studies the Hellenization of Rome during the middle Republic years, where changes in arts, religion and philosophy, and politics altered Roman public life by introducing Greek learning.
Author | : E. Badian |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : Frank W. Walbank |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2010-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521136808 |
This volume contains a selection of Professor F. W. Walbank's papers on classical Greco-Roman subjects.
Author | : Vasileios Liotsakis |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110493292 |
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the texts themselves. The present volume offers a fine collection of essays that on the whole emphasize the literary dimensions of the ancient Greek and Roman historians. Offering narratological, linguistic, and theoretical approaches to historiography, the contributors of the book elaborate on the intersections between historiography and other literary genres, the literary manipulation of military events and the criteria of selectivity, the reception of ancient historical texts in other genres, time and space in historical narrative, and plenty of other relevant topics. The shared belief of the authors is that there is a close interrelation between the literary features and the scientific value of ancient Greek and Roman historiography.
Author | : George W. Houston |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469617803 |
Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
Author | : Robin Osborne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2004-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521837699 |
A collection of innovative essays on major topics in ancient Greece and Rome, first published in 2004.