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The Resource Being Greek under Rome : cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire, edited by Simon Goldhill

Being Greek under Rome : cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire, edited by Simon Goldhill

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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 respond to their political position, to intellectual authority, to religions and social pressures. It explores the fascinating 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 new understanding of the long history of imperialism and cultural conflict
Language
eng
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Extent
viii, 395 pages
Contents
  • Describing self in the language of the other : Pseudo Lucian at the temple of Hierapolis
  • Ja's Elsner
  • The erotic eye : visual stimulation and cultural conflict
  • Simon Goldhill
  • Visions and revisions of Homer
  • Froma I. Zeitlin
  • "Greece is the world" : exile and identity in the second sophistic
  • Tim Whitmarsh
  • Local heroes : athletics, festivals and elite self-fashioning in the Roman east
  • Onno van Nijf
  • Setting an agenda : "everything is Greece to the wise"
  • The rabbi in Aphrodite's bath : Palestinian society and Jewish identity in the high Roman Empire
  • Seth Schwartz
  • Simon Goldhill
  • From megalopolis to cosmopolis : Polybius, or there and back again
  • John Henderson
  • Mutilated messengers : body language in Josephus
  • Maud Gleason
  • Roman questions, Greek answers : Plutarch and the construction of identity
  • Rebecca Preston
Isbn
9780521030878
Instance
Label
Being Greek under Rome : cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire
Title
Being Greek under Rome
Title remainder
cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire
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edited by Simon Goldhill
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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 respond to their political position, to intellectual authority, to religions and social pressures. It explores the fascinating 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 new understanding of the long history of imperialism and cultural conflict
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DLC
Dewey number
937
Index
index present
LC call number
DG78
LC item number
.B385 2001
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Goldhill, Simon
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  • Rome
  • Rome
  • Rome
  • Rome
  • Sophists (Greek philosophy)
  • Second Sophistic movement
  • Civilization
  • Cultural policy
  • Ethnic relations
  • Second Sophistic movement
  • Sophists (Greek philosophy)
  • Rome (Empire)
  • Culturele identiteit
  • Etnische betrekkingen
  • Sofistiek
  • Griekse oudheid
  • Griechen
  • Griechisch
  • Kulturelle Identität
  • Literatur
  • Römisches Reich
  • Zweite Sophistik
  • Kulturpolitik
  • Grekere
  • Kultur
  • Identitet
  • Romersk keisertid
  • Império romano (história)
  • Civilização grega (influências)
  • Política cultural
  • Sophistes grecs
  • Rome
  • Rome
  • Rome
  • Griechen
Label
Being Greek under Rome : cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire, edited by Simon Goldhill
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-389) and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Describing self in the language of the other : Pseudo Lucian at the temple of Hierapolis
  • Ja's Elsner
  • The erotic eye : visual stimulation and cultural conflict
  • Simon Goldhill
  • Visions and revisions of Homer
  • Froma I. Zeitlin
  • "Greece is the world" : exile and identity in the second sophistic
  • Tim Whitmarsh
  • Local heroes : athletics, festivals and elite self-fashioning in the Roman east
  • Onno van Nijf
  • Setting an agenda : "everything is Greece to the wise"
  • The rabbi in Aphrodite's bath : Palestinian society and Jewish identity in the high Roman Empire
  • Seth Schwartz
  • Simon Goldhill
  • From megalopolis to cosmopolis : Polybius, or there and back again
  • John Henderson
  • Mutilated messengers : body language in Josephus
  • Maud Gleason
  • Roman questions, Greek answers : Plutarch and the construction of identity
  • Rebecca Preston
Control code
44883520
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
viii, 395 pages
Isbn
9780521030878
Lccn
00064234
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780521663175
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)44883520
Label
Being Greek under Rome : cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire, edited by Simon Goldhill
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-389) and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Describing self in the language of the other : Pseudo Lucian at the temple of Hierapolis
  • Ja's Elsner
  • The erotic eye : visual stimulation and cultural conflict
  • Simon Goldhill
  • Visions and revisions of Homer
  • Froma I. Zeitlin
  • "Greece is the world" : exile and identity in the second sophistic
  • Tim Whitmarsh
  • Local heroes : athletics, festivals and elite self-fashioning in the Roman east
  • Onno van Nijf
  • Setting an agenda : "everything is Greece to the wise"
  • The rabbi in Aphrodite's bath : Palestinian society and Jewish identity in the high Roman Empire
  • Seth Schwartz
  • Simon Goldhill
  • From megalopolis to cosmopolis : Polybius, or there and back again
  • John Henderson
  • Mutilated messengers : body language in Josephus
  • Maud Gleason
  • Roman questions, Greek answers : Plutarch and the construction of identity
  • Rebecca Preston
Control code
44883520
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
viii, 395 pages
Isbn
9780521030878
Lccn
00064234
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780521663175
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)44883520

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