Roman rule in Greek and Latin writing : double vision /

Roman rule in Greek and Latin writing : double vision /

Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the Third 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' res...

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Other Authors: Madsen, Jesper Majbom., Rees, Roger.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series: Impact of Empire 18.
Impact of Empire Online, ISBN: 9789004411142.

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Politics in literature.

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Call Number: PA3014.P65 R65 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: A Roman Greek /
  • Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees
  • 1 Patriotism and Ambitions: Intellectual Response to Roman Rule in the High Empire /
  • Jesper Majbom Madsen
  • 2 Becoming Wolf, Staying Sheep /
  • Ewen Bowie
  • 3 Accommodation, Opposition or Other? Luke-Acts' Stance Towards Rome /
  • John Moles
  • 4 Adopting the Emperor: Pliny's Praise-giving as Cultural Appropriation /
  • Roger Rees
  • 5 The Representation of Greek Diplomacy in Tacitus /
  • Bruce Gibson
  • 6 Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War /
  • Rhiannon Ash
  • 7 'Heus tu rhetorisce': Gellius, Cicero, Plutarch, and Roman Study Abroad /
  • Joseph A. Howley
  • 8 Triple Vision: Ulpian of Tyre on the Duties of the Proconsul /
  • Jill Harries
  • 9 Greek History in a Roman Context: Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander /
  • Jesper Carlsen
  • 10 Herodian on Greek and Roman Failings /
  • Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
  • 11 Images of Elite Community in Philostratus: Re-Reading the Preface to the Lives of the Sophists /
  • Jason König
  • Bibliography
  • Index.