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1 online resource (vi, 303 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Impact of Empire, Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476 ; volume 18
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Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 18.
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"This volume has its origins in a conference hosted in April 2009 at the University of Southern Denmark as a collaborative venture between the School of History, University of Southern Denmark and the School of Classics, University of St Andrews"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
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 practice the collection revisits the orthodoxy of two separate intellectual groups, differentiated as much by cultural and political agendas as by language. The book features specialists in Greek and Roman literary and intellectual culture; it gathers papers on a variety of authors, across several literary genres, and through this spectrum, makes possible an informed and detailed comparison of Greek and Latin literary views of Roman power (in various manifestations, including military, religion, law and politics). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-295) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
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Classical literature -- History and criticism.
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Classical literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Madsen, Jesper Majbom, editor, author.
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Rees, Roger, editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roman rule in Greek and Latin writing. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014] 9789004277380 (DLC) 2014017109 (OCoLC)879567624 |
| ISBN |
9781306976923 (e-book) |
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1306976928 (e-book) |
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9004278281 (e-book) |
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9789004278288 (electronic book) |
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9789004277380 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004277382 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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