Roman rule in Greek and Latin writing : double vision /

This book explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors' responses to Roman power; in prac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Madsen, Jesper Majbom (Autor, Editor ), Rees, Roger (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Colección:Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 18.
Temas:
Politics in literature.
Classical literature > History and criticism.
Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Latin.
Classical literature
Politics in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a Roman Greek / Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees
  • Patriotism and ambitions : intellectual response to Roman rule in the High Empire / Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • Becoming wolf, staying sheep / Ewen Bowie
  • Accommodation, opposition or other? : Luke-Acts' stance towards Rome / John Moles
  • Adopting the emperor : Pliny's praise-giving as cultural appropriation / Roger Rees
  • The representation of Greek diplomacy in Tacitus / Bruce Gibson
  • Fractured vision : Josephus and Tacitus on triumph and civil war / Rhiannon Ash
  • "Heus tu rhetorische" : Gellius, Cicero, Plutarch, and Roman study abroad / Joseph A. Howley
  • Triple vision : Ulpian of Tyre on the duties of the proconsul / Jill Harries
  • Greek history in a Roman context : Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander / Jesper Carlsen
  • Herodian on Greek and Roman failings / Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
  • Images of elite community in Philostratus : re-reading the preface to the Lives of the Sophists / Jason König.

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