Greek literature and the Roman empire : the politics of imitation

Greek literature and the Roman empire : the politics of imitation / Tim Whitmarsh.

"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 C.E. (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). The central preoccupa...

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Main Author: Whitmarsh, Tim
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The Politics of Imitation. 1. Repetition: The Crisis of Posterity. 2. Education: Strategies of Self-Making
  • pt. 2. Greece and Rome. 3. Rome Uncivilized: Exile and the Kingdom. 4. Civilizing Rome: Greek Pedagogy and the Roman Emperor. 5. Satirizing Rome: Lucian. App. 1. Translation of Favorinus, On Exile (P. Vat. 11)
  • App. 2. The Performative Context of Dio's Kingship orations.

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