Articulating Resistance Under the Roman Empire

Herausgeber: Jolowicz, Daniel; Elsner, Ja&

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of genre, the negotiation of identity, and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484909
• ISBN-10: 1108484905
• Artikelnr.: 65693166

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Articulating resistance Daniel Jolowicz and Jä Elsner; Part
I. Language and Identity: 1. Linguistic resistance to Rome: A reappraisal
of the epigraphic evidence Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair; Part II.
Genres of Literary Resistance: 2. Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late
antique philosophical dialogues Dawn LaValle Norman; 3. Greek declamation
and the art of resistance Will Guast; 4. Plutarch's parallelism and
resistance Eran Almagor; 5. A glitch in the matrix: Aphrodisias, Rome and
imperial Greek fiction Daniel Jolowicz; Part III. Identity Negotiation: 6.
Portraying power: Lucian's imagines and Marcus Aurelius' meditations Nicolò
D'Alconzo; 7. Satire and the polis in Lucian's Timon or The Misanthrope
Aneurin Ellis-Evans; Part IV. Religion and Resistance: 8. Anti-Roman
Sibyl(s) Helen Van Noorden; 9. Traditions of resistance in Greco-Egyptian
narratives Ian Rutherford; 10. Julian the emperor and the reaction against
Christianity: A case study of resistance from the top Lea Niccolai;
Epilogue: Resisting resistance Simon Goldhill.