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| 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 | : Baldwin |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 602 |
| Release | : 2023-11-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004673091 |
| 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 | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004090514 |
This book is an examination of the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. Acclaimed historian Erich S. Gruen discusses the introduction of and resistance to new cults, the relationship between Roman political figures and literary artists schooled in Greek, and the reaction to Hellenic philosophy and rhetoric by the Roman elite. This book contributes new and important information on the place of Greek culture in Roman public life.
| Author | : Erich S. Gruen |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 1996-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520204832 |
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 |
| ISBN | : |
| 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 | : Jason König |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2013-10-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1472521323 |
In this book Jason Konig offers for the first time an accessible yet comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. He covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific and miscellanistic writing, geography and history, biography and poetry, providing a vivid introduction to key texts, with extensive quotation in translation. The challenges and pleasures these texts offer to their readers have come to be newly appreciated in the classical scholarship of the last two or three decades. In addition there has been renewed interest in the role played by novelistic and rhetorical writing in the Greek culture of the Roman Empire more broadly, and in the many different ways in which these texts respond to the world around them. This volume offers a broad introduction to those exciting developments.
| 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.
