Greek literature and the Roman empire : the politics of imitation / Tim Whitmarsh.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: xiv, 378 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0199240353 (alk. paper)
- Greek literature -- Rome -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
- Politics and literature -- Rome -- History
- Greek literature -- Appreciation -- Rome
- Civilization, Greco-Roman
- Hellenism
- Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
- Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D
- Greece -- Relations -- Rome
- Rome -- Relations -- Greece
- 303.48/237038 21
- PA3086 .W48 2001
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Circulating | Philip Becker Goetz Library | PA3086 .W48 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-364) and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire -- Literature, Power, and Culture -- A Geography of the Imagination -- Imitation and Identity -- The Politics of Imitation -- PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF IMITATIO1 -- i. Repetition: The Crisis of Posterity -- A Secondary Society -- Repetition and Mimesis -- Rescuing Mimesis -- Sublime Mimesis -- Art and Artifice -- Conclusion: From 'Past and Present' to 'Prior and -- Posterior' -- 2. Education: Strategies of Self-Making -- Strategies of Self-Making -- Paideia and Social Status -- Paideia and Gender -- Paideia and Hellenism -- Pedagogy, Identity, Power -- PART TWO: GREECE AND ROME -- 3. Rome Uncivilized: Exile and the Kingdom -- Exile and the Kingdom -- Musonius Rufus, the 'Roman' 'Socrates' -- Dio Chrysostom: Exile and Sophistry -- Favorinus: Exile and Literary Alienation -- Conclusion -- 4. Civilizing Rome: Greek Pedagogy and the Roman -- Emperor -- Staging Philosophy: The Dionic Man -- The Kingship orations: Performance and/of Power -- Staging the Self: Sophistry in Motion -- Greek Pedagogy and Roman Rule -- Marcus Aurelius: Internalized Pedagogy -- Dio and Philostratus -- Conclusion: On Kingship -- 5. Satirizing Rome: Lucian -- Satire and Satirical Identity -- Rome, City of Spectacles -- The Satirical Show -- Nigrinus: Yearning for Philosophy -- The Wrongs of Passage: On salaried posts -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendices: -- i. Translation of Favorinus, On Exile (P.Vat. Ii) -- 2. The Performative Context of Dio's Kingship orations -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index of Greek Words -- General Index.
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