Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy
Title | Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1996-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520204836 |
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.
Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy
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Release | 1996 |
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Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome
Title | Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801480416 |
A compelling account of the assimilation and adaptation of Greek culture by the Romans during the middle and later Republic.
Becoming Roman
Title | Becoming Roman PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Woolf |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2000-07-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521789820 |
Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Title | Greek Literature and the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Whitmarsh |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
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.
Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Title | Greek Athletics in the Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Zahra Newby |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2005-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191515574 |
The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek east of the empire too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also accommodating Roman imperial power.
Heritage and Hellenism
Title | Heritage and Hellenism PDF eBook |
Author | Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2002-02-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520235061 |
In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.