Nicolas Wiater
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5628915 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicolas Wiater |
| NOMBRES | Nicolas |
| APELLIDO | Wiater |
| FIRMA | WIATER N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9264-9357 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Empire Becomes a Body
This chapter explores how the experience of Roman power impacted Polybius’ image of the shape of the world under Roman rule. Developing further classical uses of the body as political metaphor, Polybius is the first author we know of to use the body to conceptualise the impact of Roman rule on the oikoumene . He thus foreshadows the metaphor of the corpus imperii , a core element of Roman concepts of their empire in the imperial period. This sign…
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by offering new readings of a wide range of late Hellenistic texts and genres, including historiography, geography, rhetoric and philosophy, together with m…
Experiencing the Past
Getting Over Athens
This chapter examines the ambivalent image of Classical Athens in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Roman Antiquities . This image reflects a deep-seated ambiguity of Dionysius’ Classicist ideology: on the one hand, there is no question for Dionysius that Athenocentric Hellenicity failed, and that the Roman empire has superseded Athens’ role once and for all as the political and cultural centre of the oikoumene . On the other, Dionysius accepted Rome’s…
Documents and Narrative
Polybius and Sallust
This chapter examines Thucydides’ influence on Polybius and Sallust. It demonstrates the various ways in which these two authors drew on and adapted the concepts, methods and ideas, style, and narrative technique of their famous predecessor as part of the creation of their own original interpretations of the past. In respect to Polybius, the chapter argues that the Thucydidean paradigm had a marked effect both on Polybius’ conceptions of historic…
Expertise, ‘Character’ and the ‘Authority Effect’ in the Early Roman History of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual…
Shifting Endings, Ambiguity and Deferred Closure in Polybius’ Histories
Polybius on Speeches in Timaeus
The most famous – and most discussed – ancient statement on speeches in historiography is probably Thucydides 1.22.1, but Polybius’ discussion of speeches in Timaeus in Book 12 of his Histories follows closely. Although Polybius’ criticism of Timaeus has been fruitfully studied from very different angles, the meaning and implications of many of his statements are still debated
Greek language and dialects (Classical times)
The term “classical Greek” is usually applied to a literary variety of Attic, the dialect of Athens and Attica, as used in the fifth and fourth centuries bce.
Kissing
Kissing was a multifaceted and important medium of nonverbal communication in many social contexts of the Greco‐Roman world.
The Ideology of Classicism
So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. The Ideology of Classicism proposes a novel approach to Dionysius'oeuvre as a whole by providing the first systematic studyof Greek classicism from theperspective of cultural identity. Drawing on cultural anthropology and Social Identity Theory, Wiater explores the world-view bound up with classicist criticism. Only f…
The struggle for identity
In the first century BCE, Greek intellectuals had to come to terms with the stability of Roman power. Many of them were active in Rome, which became the cultural centre of the Greek world; others were connected with Roman patrons. Their work became important for the emergence of Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together an international group of leading Classical scholars, this volume represents the first attempt at a comprehensive st…
The Ideology of Classicism
So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. The Ideology of Classicism proposes a novel approach to Dionysius'oeuvre as a whole by providing the first systematic studyof Greek classicism from theperspective of cultural identity. Drawing on cultural anthropology and Social Identity Theory, Wiater explores the world-view bound up with classicist criticism. Only f…
The Ideology of Classicism
So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. The Ideology of Classicism proposes a novel approach to Dionysius'oeuvre as a whole by providing the first systematic studyof Greek classicism from theperspective of cultural identity. Drawing on cultural anthropology and Social Identity Theory, Wiater explores the world-view bound up with classicist criticism. Only f…
The struggle for identity
In the first century BCE, Greek intellectuals had to come to terms with the stability of Roman power. Many of them were active in Rome, which became the cultural centre of the Greek world; others were connected with Roman patrons. Their work became important for the emergence of Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together an international group of leading Classical scholars, this volume represents the first attempt at a comprehensive st…
Greek language and dialects (Classical times)
The term “classical Greek” is usually applied to a literary variety of Attic, the dialect of Athens and Attica, as used in the fifth and fourth centuries bce.
Kissing
Kissing was a multifaceted and important medium of nonverbal communication in many social contexts of the Greco‐Roman world.
Polybius on Speeches in Timaeus
The most famous – and most discussed – ancient statement on speeches in historiography is probably Thucydides 1.22.1, but Polybius’ discussion of speeches in Timaeus in Book 12 of his Histories follows closely. Although Polybius’ criticism of Timaeus has been fruitfully studied from very different angles, the meaning and implications of many of his statements are still debated
Shifting Endings, Ambiguity and Deferred Closure in Polybius’ Histories
Polybius and Sallust
This chapter examines Thucydides’ influence on Polybius and Sallust. It demonstrates the various ways in which these two authors drew on and adapted the concepts, methods and ideas, style, and narrative technique of their famous predecessor as part of the creation of their own original interpretations of the past. In respect to Polybius, the chapter argues that the Thucydidean paradigm had a marked effect both on Polybius’ conceptions of historic…
Expertise, ‘Character’ and the ‘Authority Effect’ in the Early Roman History of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual…
Experiencing the Past
Getting Over Athens
This chapter examines the ambivalent image of Classical Athens in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Roman Antiquities . This image reflects a deep-seated ambiguity of Dionysius’ Classicist ideology: on the one hand, there is no question for Dionysius that Athenocentric Hellenicity failed, and that the Roman empire has superseded Athens’ role once and for all as the political and cultural centre of the oikoumene . On the other, Dionysius accepted Rome’s…
Documents and Narrative
The Empire Becomes a Body
This chapter explores how the experience of Roman power impacted Polybius’ image of the shape of the world under Roman rule. Developing further classical uses of the body as political metaphor, Polybius is the first author we know of to use the body to conceptualise the impact of Roman rule on the oikoumene . He thus foreshadows the metaphor of the corpus imperii , a core element of Roman concepts of their empire in the imperial period. This sign…
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by offering new readings of a wide range of late Hellenistic texts and genres, including historiography, geography, rhetoric and philosophy, together with m…
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