Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235

Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235
Title Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235 PDF eBook
Author Alice König
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 427
Release 2020-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 1108493939

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Discovers new connections and cross-fertilisations between different cultural, linguistic and religious communities in the Roman Empire.

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature
Title Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature PDF eBook
Author N. Bryant Kirkland
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 393
Release 2022
Genre History
ISBN 0197583512

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"Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, this book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus's intellectual afterlife, channeled through evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire and periegetic literature. Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature shifts focus from reputation only - what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus - toward the kinetic interrelation between Herodotus's reputation and his active reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed and often implicitly summoned - as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual - and how such Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Herodotus became a touchstone for writers concerned with a nimbus of questions that the Histories first helped to articulate. Imperial Greeks found Herodotus useful in puzzling through questions of authorial persona, mimesis, the relationship between aesthetic and ethical criticism, the self, and the contingent definitions of Hellenism under Rome. Ultimately, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature widens an incomplete reception history and reads bi-focally, examining how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories"--

Imagining the Roman Emperor

Imagining the Roman Emperor
Title Imagining the Roman Emperor PDF eBook
Author Panayiotis Christoforou
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 291
Release 2023-07-31
Genre History
ISBN 1009362518

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How was the Roman emperor viewed by his subjects? How strongly did their perception of his role shape his behaviour? Adopting a fresh approach, Panayiotis Christoforou focuses on the emperor from the perspective of his subjects across the Roman Empire. Stress lies on the imagination: the emperor was who he seemed, or was imagined, to be. Through various vignettes employing a wide range of sources, he analyses the emperor through the concerns and expectations of his subjects, which range from intercessory justice to fears of the monstrosities associated with absolute power. The book posits that mythical and fictional stories about the Roman emperor form the substance of what people thought about him, which underlines their importance for the historical and political discourse that formed around him as a figure. The emperor emerges as an ambiguous figure. Loved and hated, feared and revered, he was an object of contradiction and curiosity.

Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire

Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire
Title Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire PDF eBook
Author Assistant Professor of Classics and Senior Research Associate of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology Scott J Digiulio
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 361
Release 2024
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0197688268

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"Aulus Gellius and his sole surviving work, the Noctes Atticae (NA), have long stood on the periphery of Classical scholarship. This second century CE compilation, conventionally termed a miscellany, collects vast amounts of otherwise lost ancient literature, and the depictions of scholarly activity throughout the work have led some to see in Gellius a kindred spirit-a Classicist avant la lettre. Yet, the NA is a fascinating work of literature in its own right, depicting the intellectual and literary culture at the height of the Roman Empire and offering invaluable evidence for the evolution of Latin prose as a literary form in the Antonine period. In contrast to previous scholarship that looks past the randomness of the NA, this book argues that the conceit of disorder enabled Gellius to probe the nature of reading in the second century CE. Gellius' central preoccupation is articulating a distinct set of "ways of reading" that may be employed to navigate the web of literature in the Roman Empire. In turn, each of these ways of reading-through material framing devices, focal characters, recurrent citations in dialogue with one another, and allusive references to other near-contemporary works-can be used to examine Gellius' collection and appreciate its literary qualities. Incorporating inter- and intratextual analysis alongside narratology-informed approaches, this book investigates the strategies used by Gellius to innovate within the Latin literary tradition and provides a framework for interpreting his varietas on its own terms"--

Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian

Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
Title Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian PDF eBook
Author Alice König
Publisher
Pages 491
Release 2018-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 1108420591

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The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96-138). Authors treated include Frontinus, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Quintilian, Suetonius and Tacitus. Key topics and approaches include recitation, allusion, intertextuality, 'extratextuality' and socioliterary interactions.

Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities

Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities
Title Negotiation, Collaboration and Conflict in Ancient and Medieval Communities PDF eBook
Author Christian Krötzl
Publisher Routledge
Pages 344
Release 2022-03-28
Genre History
ISBN 1000567842

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Focusing on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual contexts during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, this volume examines questions of social and cultural interaction within and between diverse ethnic communities. Toleration and coexistence were essential in all late antique and medieval societies and their communities. However, power struggles and prejudices could give rise to suspicion, conflict and violence. All of these had a central influence on social dynamics, negotiations of collective or individual identity, definitions of ethnicity and the shaping of legal rules. What was the function of multicultural and multilingual interaction: did it create and increase conflicts, or was it rather a prerequisite for survival and prosperity? The focus of this book is society and the history of everyday life, examining gender, status and ethnicity and the various forms of interaction and negotiation.

Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia

Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia
Title Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia PDF eBook
Author Jacobo Myerston
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 185
Release 2023-04-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009289926

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Argues that Greek thinkers engaged with linguistic concepts developed by Mesopotamian scribes in a process leading to new discoveries.