Research Catalog

Title

Greek literature and the Roman empire [electronic resource] : the politics of imitation / Tim Whitmarsh.

Author

Whitmarsh, Tim

Publication

Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xiv, 377 p.)

Uniform Title

Greek literature and the Roman empire (Online)

Alternative Title

Greek literature and the Roman empire (Online)

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-364) and indexes.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2001036382

OCLC

ssj0000297911

Author

Whitmarsh, Tim.

Title

Greek literature and the Roman empire [electronic resource] : the politics of imitation / Tim Whitmarsh.

Imprint

Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-364) and indexes.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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