Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9781315146393 |
| Open Library | OL21361535W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2018 - 2018 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 1 |
| h-index | 1 |
Entertainers, Persuaders, Adversaries
The contribution examines the dynamics of interactions between sophists and rulers in Philostratus’ Lives of Sophists, and argues that such encounters have a dynamic markedly different from depictions of meetings between wise men or philosophers and rulers. The paper is organized around three categories of sophist-ruler interactions: first, where a sophist acts as an entertainer and provider of pleasurable pastime for a ruler; second, where a sop…
Marcus Aurelius, Greek Poets, and Greek Sophists
The article explores Marcus Aurelius’ attitudes to Greek poets and sophists. His philosophical Meditations express contempt for poetry and rhetoric, but like the Roman governing class as a whole, Marcus had great respect for the world of Greek culture in which poets and sophists were leading figures. It is noted that Marcus probably knew and may have had to approve Marcellus’ poems for Herodes Atticus, inscribed ca. 160 near the Via Appia outside…
Speaking Truth to Power
The article suggests a probable context for the clash between the gymnosophists and the Ethiopian king Hydaspes in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus. The model for this stand-off is of course the famous encounter between Alexander III of Macedon and the ascetic sages of India, who were initially likened to the Hellenistic Cynics. In the third century of the Roman Empire, the holy man Apollonius of Tyana, who had ostentatiously opposed the autocratic R…
Lucian on Roman Officials
In several of his writings (e.g. Demonax, Alexander, De morte Peregrini, Fugitivi, Pro lapsu inter salutandum, Apologia), Lucian comments on the doings and attitudes of Roman officials he himself or other people had to deal with under various circumstances. This paper gives a survey of these passages and tries to answer the question whether we can detect a consistent way of looking (on Lucian’s part) at these Romans, and so learn something new ab…
Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Entertainers, Persuaders, Adversaries
The contribution examines the dynamics of interactions between sophists and rulers in Philostratus’ Lives of Sophists, and argues that such encounters have a dynamic markedly different from depictions of meetings between wise men or philosophers and rulers. The paper is organized around three categories of sophist-ruler interactions: first, where a sophist acts as an entertainer and provider of pleasurable pastime for a ruler; second, where a sop…
Marcus Aurelius, Greek Poets, and Greek Sophists
The article explores Marcus Aurelius’ attitudes to Greek poets and sophists. His philosophical Meditations express contempt for poetry and rhetoric, but like the Roman governing class as a whole, Marcus had great respect for the world of Greek culture in which poets and sophists were leading figures. It is noted that Marcus probably knew and may have had to approve Marcellus’ poems for Herodes Atticus, inscribed ca. 160 near the Via Appia outside…
Speaking Truth to Power
The article suggests a probable context for the clash between the gymnosophists and the Ethiopian king Hydaspes in the Aethiopica of Heliodorus. The model for this stand-off is of course the famous encounter between Alexander III of Macedon and the ascetic sages of India, who were initially likened to the Hellenistic Cynics. In the third century of the Roman Empire, the holy man Apollonius of Tyana, who had ostentatiously opposed the autocratic R…
Lucian on Roman Officials
In several of his writings (e.g. Demonax, Alexander, De morte Peregrini, Fugitivi, Pro lapsu inter salutandum, Apologia), Lucian comments on the doings and attitudes of Roman officials he himself or other people had to deal with under various circumstances. This paper gives a survey of these passages and tries to answer the question whether we can detect a consistent way of looking (on Lucian’s part) at these Romans, and so learn something new ab…
Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity