Greek literature and the Roman empire
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780199240357 |
| Open Library | OL6030703W |
| Total publications | 9 |
| Coverage period | 2002 - 2002 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 25 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
xiv, 377 p. ; 22 cm
The performative context of Dio’s Kingship orations
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Conclusion
Cultural identity is not innate, but constructed and vied for in social space. In Stuart Hall’s terms, it is ‘not an essence but a positioning’} Assumptions that Greek identity in any period stemmed organically from a single, integral radical risk complicity with nineteenth-century racial theory: the explicitly biological metaphors (‘blood’, ‘vitality’, ‘reinvigoration’) may have gone, but the familiar talk of a renaissance or ‘flourishing’2 of H…
Rome Uncivilized
The first part of this book focused primarily upon literary culture (paideia) as a means of creating Greek identity by exploring the relationship between past and present. The composition and dissemination of texts, and also the construction of the identity of the pepaideumenos (‘educated man’) were not self-evident activities; rather, they provided a matrix wherein identities could be inflected in different ways at different times. The ‘secondar…
Translation of Favorinus, On Exile (P.Vat. 11)
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Civilizing Rome
The previous chapter considered the representation of intercultural stand-off, a scenario in which the emperor is negatively assessed on the grounds of his rejection of pedagogical advice, while the philosopher is positively appraised for his manly, serene triumph over adversity. This chapter considers the more constructive counterpart of the exilic paradigm, namely the harmonious coexistence of philosophy and the principate.
Education
The previous chapter discussed the multiple ways in which mimetic literature can be used to construct or challenge cultural links with the past. In this chapter, I wish to broaden the focus, so as to encompass the litterateur him- or her- (but as a rule him-) self. That is to say, I wish to consider the question of what sort of individual identity accrues to the pepaideumenos, the ‘educated’ man (or woman). Several fine studies already exist deal…
Repetition
In 1964 Bernard van Groningen responded to an invitation to speak on the subject of ‘General literary tendencies of the second century AD’ at the fourth International Congress of Classical Studies in Philadelphia. His oration, subsequently published, is one of the most hostile of the many attacks upon Greek literary culture under Roman rule, a blunt, historically insensitive, and occasionally incoherent diatribe against what he sees as ‘an essent…
Satirizing Rome
In the last two chapters we have seen how the polarization of ‘Greece’ and ‘Rome’ — as though the two entities were discrete — is fraught with an ironic awareness of the mutual implication of the two. The texts on exile articulate an alienated distancing from Rome into the canonical past of free-speaking Greek autonomy, but in a self-conscious manner that knowingly bespeaks the Romanness of their authors. The tradition of imperial pedagogy is sim…
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). This literature should not be dismissed as unoriginal and mediocre. Rather, its central preoccupations, especially mimesis and paideia, provide significant insights into the definition of G…
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). This literature should not be dismissed as unoriginal and mediocre. Rather, its central preoccupations, especially mimesis and paideia, provide significant insights into the definition of G…
The performative context of Dio’s Kingship orations
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Conclusion
Cultural identity is not innate, but constructed and vied for in social space. In Stuart Hall’s terms, it is ‘not an essence but a positioning’} Assumptions that Greek identity in any period stemmed organically from a single, integral radical risk complicity with nineteenth-century racial theory: the explicitly biological metaphors (‘blood’, ‘vitality’, ‘reinvigoration’) may have gone, but the familiar talk of a renaissance or ‘flourishing’2 of H…
Rome Uncivilized
The first part of this book focused primarily upon literary culture (paideia) as a means of creating Greek identity by exploring the relationship between past and present. The composition and dissemination of texts, and also the construction of the identity of the pepaideumenos (‘educated man’) were not self-evident activities; rather, they provided a matrix wherein identities could be inflected in different ways at different times. The ‘secondar…
Translation of Favorinus, On Exile (P.Vat. 11)
Subject Ancient Roman History Textual Criticism Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Civilizing Rome
The previous chapter considered the representation of intercultural stand-off, a scenario in which the emperor is negatively assessed on the grounds of his rejection of pedagogical advice, while the philosopher is positively appraised for his manly, serene triumph over adversity. This chapter considers the more constructive counterpart of the exilic paradigm, namely the harmonious coexistence of philosophy and the principate.
Education
The previous chapter discussed the multiple ways in which mimetic literature can be used to construct or challenge cultural links with the past. In this chapter, I wish to broaden the focus, so as to encompass the litterateur him- or her- (but as a rule him-) self. That is to say, I wish to consider the question of what sort of individual identity accrues to the pepaideumenos, the ‘educated’ man (or woman). Several fine studies already exist deal…
Repetition
In 1964 Bernard van Groningen responded to an invitation to speak on the subject of ‘General literary tendencies of the second century AD’ at the fourth International Congress of Classical Studies in Philadelphia. His oration, subsequently published, is one of the most hostile of the many attacks upon Greek literary culture under Roman rule, a blunt, historically insensitive, and occasionally incoherent diatribe against what he sees as ‘an essent…
Satirizing Rome
In the last two chapters we have seen how the polarization of ‘Greece’ and ‘Rome’ — as though the two entities were discrete — is fraught with an ironic awareness of the mutual implication of the two. The texts on exile articulate an alienated distancing from Rome into the canonical past of free-speaking Greek autonomy, but in a self-conscious manner that knowingly bespeaks the Romanness of their authors. The tradition of imperial pedagogy is sim…
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to make a major and original contribution to the appreciation of Greek literature written under the Roman Empire during the second century CE (the so-called 'Second Sophistic'). This literature should not be dismissed as unoriginal and mediocre. Rather, its central preoccupations, especially mimesis and paideia, provide significant insights into the definition of G…