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 ‘secondariness’ of Roman Greek literary production conceals a variety of ways of construing the modernity of the present, from decadence through to trans formation.

Aesthetics · Art · Composition (language) · Decadence · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Literature · Modernity · Paideia · Variety (cybernetics) · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Philosophy