Matthew Roller
Biographic Data
| ID | 953342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Roller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Roller |
| SIGNATURE | ROLLER M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire
412 PHOENIX propose that, in spite of wealth, the urbanized Roman lifestyle led to deteriorating health during the empire; he concludes that further evidence and analyses are required. In the final chapter he succinctly summarizes his main arguments and places them in an even broader context, suggesting that the impact of private-order enforcement may have reduced economic performance and stifled innovation. Overall, Terpstra’s work is credible, …
Amicable and Hostile Exchange in the Culture of Recitation
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The Dialogue in Seneca’s Dialogues (and Other Moral Essays)
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Precept(or) and Example in Seneca
This chapter argues that, while Seneca frequently deploys everyday Roman exemplary discourse in a fairly traditional way, in Letters 94 and 108 he subjects this discourse to a searching critique, identifying, from a Stoic viewpoint, a series of deficiencies in its capacity to register and assign moral value. A given glorious deed may have been motivated by a vice, not a virtue; a virtuous condition of soul can be inferred only on the basis of mul…
The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation.…
Teaching “Theory” in Topical Graduate Seminars
This paper discusses a method of teaching theory to graduate students in the context of graduate seminars that are constructed around classical topics—particular ancient texts or authors, specific historical or art-historical or archaeological questions, and so forth. This method ties the necessary theory directly to the seminar’s topic, and thereby subordinates the exposition of theory to the overall problematic of the seminar. This approach con…
Georg H. B. Luck
On the Intersignification of Monuments in Augustan Rome
The erection of public monuments in Rome was an arena of aristocratic competition, as scholars have long recognized. Victorious generals, who set up temples, porticoes, statues, columns, and the like, typically selected these monuments’ appearance and location to create a studied contrast with preexisting monuments. This dynamic, which I call “intersignification,” bears fruitful comparison with the “intertextual” dynamics of Latin poetry. I offer…
Culture-Based Approaches
This article examines some of the ways the concept of culture has been deployed in Roman Studies, and in classical scholarship more generally. In so doing, it hopes to show what kinds of critical work this concept can be made to do; to make explicit some of the intellectual commitments that accompany the various uses of this term; to illustrate how these commitments are manifested in scholarly works which seem (to the author) to represent useful …
The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture
The modern reader of any Roman text that concerns itself with the Roman past - principally, but not only, narrative historiography - is inevitably struck by the prominence accorded “great deeds” and the actors who perform them. It is a familiar feature of Roman historical consciousness that, at any given time, the past could be regarded as a storehouse of practices, orientations, and values - sometimes referred to as the mos maiorum , “the custom…
On the Intersignification of Monuments in Augustan Rome
The erection of public monuments in Rome was an arena of aristocratic competition, as scholars have long recognized. Victorious generals, who set up temples, porticoes, statues, columns, and the like, typically selected these monuments’ appearance and location to create a studied contrast with preexisting monuments. This dynamic, which I call “intersignification,” bears fruitful comparison with the “intertextual” dynamics of Latin poetry. I offer…
Culture-Based Approaches
This article examines some of the ways the concept of culture has been deployed in Roman Studies, and in classical scholarship more generally. In so doing, it hopes to show what kinds of critical work this concept can be made to do; to make explicit some of the intellectual commitments that accompany the various uses of this term; to illustrate how these commitments are manifested in scholarly works which seem (to the author) to represent useful …
The exemplary past in Roman historiography and culture
The modern reader of any Roman text that concerns itself with the Roman past - principally, but not only, narrative historiography - is inevitably struck by the prominence accorded “great deeds” and the actors who perform them. It is a familiar feature of Roman historical consciousness that, at any given time, the past could be regarded as a storehouse of practices, orientations, and values - sometimes referred to as the mos maiorum , “the custom…
Culture-Based Approaches
This article examines some of the ways the concept of culture has been deployed in Roman Studies, and in classical scholarship more generally. In so doing, it hopes to show what kinds of critical work this concept can be made to do; to make explicit some of the intellectual commitments that accompany the various uses of this term; to illustrate how these commitments are manifested in scholarly works which seem (to the author) to represent useful …
Georg H. B. Luck
On the Intersignification of Monuments in Augustan Rome
The erection of public monuments in Rome was an arena of aristocratic competition, as scholars have long recognized. Victorious generals, who set up temples, porticoes, statues, columns, and the like, typically selected these monuments’ appearance and location to create a studied contrast with preexisting monuments. This dynamic, which I call “intersignification,” bears fruitful comparison with the “intertextual” dynamics of Latin poetry. I offer…
The Dialogue in Seneca’s Dialogues (and Other Moral Essays)
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Precept(or) and Example in Seneca
This chapter argues that, while Seneca frequently deploys everyday Roman exemplary discourse in a fairly traditional way, in Letters 94 and 108 he subjects this discourse to a searching critique, identifying, from a Stoic viewpoint, a series of deficiencies in its capacity to register and assign moral value. A given glorious deed may have been motivated by a vice, not a virtue; a virtuous condition of soul can be inferred only on the basis of mul…
The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation.…
Teaching “Theory” in Topical Graduate Seminars
This paper discusses a method of teaching theory to graduate students in the context of graduate seminars that are constructed around classical topics—particular ancient texts or authors, specific historical or art-historical or archaeological questions, and so forth. This method ties the necessary theory directly to the seminar’s topic, and thereby subordinates the exposition of theory to the overall problematic of the seminar. This approach con…
Amicable and Hostile Exchange in the Culture of Recitation
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire
412 PHOENIX propose that, in spite of wealth, the urbanized Roman lifestyle led to deteriorating health during the empire; he concludes that further evidence and analyses are required. In the final chapter he succinctly summarizes his main arguments and places them in an even broader context, suggesting that the impact of private-order enforcement may have reduced economic performance and stifled innovation. Overall, Terpstra’s work is credible, …
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