Greek literature and the Roman empire
Subtitle: the politics of imitation
By: Tim Whitmarsh.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford [U.K.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
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
Description: xiv, 377 p. ; 22 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-364) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire; title: Literature, Power, and Culture; title: A Geography of the Imagination; title: Imitation and Identity; title: The Politics of Imitation; title: PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF IMITATIO1; title: i. Repetition: The Crisis of Posterity; title: A Secondary Society; title: Repetition and Mimesis; title: Rescuing Mimesis; title: Sublime Mimesis; title: Art and Artifice; title: Conclusion: From 'Past and Present' to 'Prior and; title: Posterior'; title: 2. Education: Strategies of Self-Making; title: Strategies of Self-Making; title: Paideia and Social Status; title: Paideia and Gender; title: Paideia and Hellenism; title: Pedagogy, Identity, Power; title: PART TWO: GREECE AND ROME; title: 3. Rome Uncivilized: Exile and the Kingdom; title: Exile and the Kingdom; title: Musonius Rufus, the 'Roman' 'Socrates'; title: Dio Chrysostom: Exile and Sophistry; title: Favorinus: Exile and Literary Alienation; title: Conclusion; title: 4. Civilizing Rome: Greek Pedagogy and the Roman; title: Emperor; title: Staging Philosophy: The Dionic Man; title: The Kingship orations: Performance and/of Power; title: Staging the Self: Sophistry in Motion; title: Greek Pedagogy and Roman Rule; title: Marcus Aurelius: Internalized Pedagogy; title: Dio and Philostratus; title: Conclusion: On Kingship; title: 5. Satirizing Rome: Lucian; title: Satire and Satirical Identity; title: Rome, City of Spectacles; title: The Satirical Show; title: Nigrinus: Yearning for Philosophy; title: The Wrongs of Passage: On salaried posts; title: Conclusion; title: Conclusion; title: Appendices:; title: i. Translation of Favorinus, On Exile (P.Vat. Ii); title: 2. The Performative Context of Dio's Kingship orations; title: References; title: Index Locorum; title: Index of Greek Words; title: General Index.