Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing

Double Vision
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27738-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Impact of Empire

Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Madsen, Jesper Majbom

Rees, Roger David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Roman Greek
Jesper Majbom Madsen and Roger Rees

1 Patriotism and Ambitions: Intellectual Response to Roman Rule in the High Empire
Jesper Majbom Madsen
2 Becoming Wolf, Staying Sheep
Ewen Bowie
3 Accommodation, Opposition or Other? Luke-Acts’ Stance Towards Rome
John Moles
4 Adopting the Emperor: Pliny’s Praise-giving as Cultural Appropriation
Roger Rees
5 The Representation of Greek Diplomacy in Tacitus
Bruce Gibson
6 Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War
Rhiannon Ash
7 ‘Heus tu rhetorisce’: Gellius, Cicero, Plutarch, and Roman Study Abroad
Joseph A. Howley
8 Triple Vision: Ulpian of Tyre on the Duties of the Proconsul
Jill Harries
9 Greek History in a Roman Context: Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Jesper Carlsen
10 Herodian on Greek and Roman Failings
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
11 Images of Elite Community in Philostratus: Re-Reading the Preface to the Lives of the Sophists
Jason König

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Rees, PhD (1997), is Reader in Latin at St Andrews University. His main research and publications concern panegyric in Roman society, especially in Late Antiquity.

Jesper Majbom Madsen, PhD (2006), is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Southern Denmark. His main research and publications concern cultural identity in the Roman Empire.

Contributors include: Rhiannon Ash, Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, Ewen Bowie, Jesper Carlsen, Bruce Gibson, Jill Harries, Joe Howley, Jason König, Jesper Majbom Madsen, John Moles and Roger Rees.