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Being Greek under Rome : Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire by Simon Goldhill (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521663172
ISBN-139780521663175
eBay Product ID (ePID)1863215
Product Key Features
Number of Pages404 Pages
Publication NameBeing Greek under Rome : Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAncient / General, Ancient / Rome, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
AuthorSimon Goldhill
Subject AreaPhilosophy, History
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight27.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN00-064234
Reviews'… this is a rich and stimulating collection … the issue of Greek cultural identity and self-fashioning is well explored through an impressive variety of detail.' Journal of Roman Studies, "Each essay informs; many challenge received assumptions...Goldhill's introduction - a major interpretative essay in itself - critically supplements the bibliography, defines issues, elaborates context, and thus provides thematic unity. To comprehend better the complexities literary, social, and religious of Hellenic societies within the Roman political orbit, read herein with profit and pleasure." CHOICE, "Many of the questions raised by these essays are of intrinsic value for the historian of the early church...Anyone interested in issues of multi-culturalism and cultural identity will find in this book examples and models of necessary scholarly sophistication." Trinity Journal, '... this is a rich and stimulating collection ... the issue of Greek cultural identity and self-fashioning is well explored through an impressive variety of detail.'Journal of Roman Studies, "The articles [are] persuasive, and the volume as a whole a considerable stimulant for my own researches and teaching....[It provides] useful information and perspectives that need to be engaged by anyone who studies the literature, culture or history of the periods in question. And for those who wish to learn more about thses approaches and this area of study, this volume is very useful indeed." Classical Bulletin, "This is a major contribution to our understanding of 'Greekness' in the period of the Second Sophistic. It is an excellent volume deserving wide reading by anyone interested in the question of identity formation in the Roman empire." Religious Studies Review, "...this is an exciting and challenging collection...it raises the bar for studies of the intersecting configurations of identity, culture, and empire.... Goldhill suggests that these essays be taken as snapshots; I offer that he has produced a splendid collage." American Journal of Philology, '… this is a rich and stimulating collection … the issue of Greek cultural identity and self-fashioning is well explored through an impressive variety of detail.'Journal of Roman Studies
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal937
Table Of ContentList of contributors; Introduction: setting an agenda - 'everything is Greece to the wise' Simon Goldhill; Part I. Subjected to Empire: 1. From Megalopolis to Cosmopolis: Polybius, or there and back again John Henderson; 2. Mutilated messengers: body language in Josephus Maud Gleason; 3. Roman questions, Greek answers: Plutarch and the construction of identity Rebecca Preston; Part II. Intellectuals on the Margins: 4. Describing self in the language of the other: Pseudo (?) Lucian at the temple of Hierapolis Jas Elsner; 5. The erotic eye: visual stimulation and cultural conflict Simon Goldhill; 6. Visions and revisions of Homer Froma I. Zeitlin; Part III. Topography and the Performance of Culture: 7. 'Greece is the world': exile and identity in the Second Sophistic Tim Whitmarsh; 8. Local heroes: athletics, festivals, and elite self-fashioning in the Roman East Onno van Nijf; 9. The Rabbi in Aphrodite's bath: Palestinian society and Jewish identity in the High Roman Empire Seth Schwartz; List of works cited; Index of major passages discussed; General index.
SynopsisThese especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating perspective on a crucial era of western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige. At the same time, Christianity and Judaism were vying for followers against the lures of such an elite cultural life. This book looks at how writers in Greek from all areas of Empire society respond to their political position, to intellectual authority, to religions and social pressures. It explores the interesting cultural clashes from which Christianity emerged to dominate the Empire. It presents a series of brilliant insights into how the culture of Empire functions and offers a fascinating and alternative understanding of the long history of imperialism and cultural conflict., These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating and novel perspective on a crucial era of Western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige. At the same time, Christianity and Judaism were vying for followers against the lures of such an elite cultural life. This book looks at how writers in Greek from all areas of Empire society responded to their political position, to intellectual authority, to religious and social pressures., Simon Goldhill explores the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire, through the perspective of Greek writings. The specially commissioned essays investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity.
LC Classification NumberDG78 .B385 2001
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