Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham
Biographic Data
| ID | 7533026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sulochana Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Asirvatham |
| SIGNATURE | ASIRVATHAM S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Montclair State University, Department of Classics and General Humanities, One Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA;, Email: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ancient Ideologies, Postmodern Echoes: American Politics after 9/11 and the Greek Rhetoric of Identity
Ancient Ideologies, Postmodern Echoes: American Politics after 9/11 and the Greek Rhetoric of Identity Sulochana Asirvatham (bio) The U.N. says to the Iraqi citizens who again are trying to figure out the right balance as they head toward this new democracy after years of — after years of being enslaved by a tyrant — how best to do this, and I think it’s very helpful to have the stamp of the international community be placed upon the political pr…
No Patriotic Fervor for Pella: Aelius Aristides and the Presentation of the Macedonians in the Second Sophistic
This paper examines four speeches by Aelius Aristides that contrast the image of Macedonian history negatively with Greek past and Roman present. Aristides' literary milieu of the 'Second Sophistic' is characterized by Greek self-consciousness and nostalgia in the Roman Empire. While writers like Plutarch and Arrian mythologize the figure of Alexander as a second Achilles and a philosopher-of-war as a means of offering subtle proof of 'Hellenic' …
Classicism and Romanitas in Plutarch's De Alexandri Fortuna Aut Virtute
It is in the very nature of classicizing texts to promote an idea of the "Greek" as objective and unchanging over the centuries. Using the example of Plutarch's DeAlexandriFortunaautVirtute, a set of epideictic speeches in which Alexander the Great appears as a philosopher who civilizes barbarians, this paper attempts to look beneath the pro-Hellenic veneer of imperial Greek writing by considering ways in which it can mask a sympathy with "Roman"…
Classicism and Romanitas in Plutarch's De Alexandri Fortuna Aut Virtute
It is in the very nature of classicizing texts to promote an idea of the "Greek" as objective and unchanging over the centuries. Using the example of Plutarch's DeAlexandriFortunaautVirtute, a set of epideictic speeches in which Alexander the Great appears as a philosopher who civilizes barbarians, this paper attempts to look beneath the pro-Hellenic veneer of imperial Greek writing by considering ways in which it can mask a sympathy with "Roman"…
Classicism and Romanitas in Plutarch's De Alexandri Fortuna Aut Virtute
It is in the very nature of classicizing texts to promote an idea of the "Greek" as objective and unchanging over the centuries. Using the example of Plutarch's DeAlexandriFortunaautVirtute, a set of epideictic speeches in which Alexander the Great appears as a philosopher who civilizes barbarians, this paper attempts to look beneath the pro-Hellenic veneer of imperial Greek writing by considering ways in which it can mask a sympathy with "Roman"…
Ancient Ideologies, Postmodern Echoes: American Politics after 9/11 and the Greek Rhetoric of Identity
Ancient Ideologies, Postmodern Echoes: American Politics after 9/11 and the Greek Rhetoric of Identity Sulochana Asirvatham (bio) The U.N. says to the Iraqi citizens who again are trying to figure out the right balance as they head toward this new democracy after years of — after years of being enslaved by a tyrant — how best to do this, and I think it’s very helpful to have the stamp of the international community be placed upon the political pr…
No Patriotic Fervor for Pella: Aelius Aristides and the Presentation of the Macedonians in the Second Sophistic
This paper examines four speeches by Aelius Aristides that contrast the image of Macedonian history negatively with Greek past and Roman present. Aristides' literary milieu of the 'Second Sophistic' is characterized by Greek self-consciousness and nostalgia in the Roman Empire. While writers like Plutarch and Arrian mythologize the figure of Alexander as a second Achilles and a philosopher-of-war as a means of offering subtle proof of 'Hellenic' …
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