Hellenism and empire
Subtitle: language, classicism, and power in the Greek world, AD 50-250
By: Simon Swain.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism.; Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.) -- Social aspects.; Greek literature -- Rome -- History and criticism.; Greek literature -- Appreciation -- Rome.; Politics and literature -- Greece.; Literature and society -- Greece.; Nationalism -- Greece -- Historiography.; Civilization, Greco-Roman.; Power (Social sciences); Imperialism.; Classicism.; Hellenism.; Greece -- Relations -- Rome.; Rome -- Relations -- Greece.
Description: "Hellenism and Empire explores Greek identity, politics, and culture in the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of the classical Greeks, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and the Greek heritage was far greater then than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as one of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studied in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[433]-474) and index.