Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Herausgeber: Bosman, Philip R

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume deals with the interaction between public intellectuals of the late Hellenistic and Roman era, and the powerful individuals with whom they came into contact.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780367666101
• ISBN-10: 0367666103
• Artikelnr.: 59999099

Autorenporträt

Philip R. Bosman (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) specialises in intellectual history, Hellenistic philosophy and Greek literature of the imperial age. He has published articles and edited volumes on a range of topics related to Greco-Roman antiquity. His monograph Conscience in Philo and Paul: A Conceptual History of the Synoida Word Group was published in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations;
Chapter 1: Enlightened King or Pragmatic Rulers? Ptolemaic Patronage of
Scholarship and Sciences in Context - Francesca Schironi; Chapter 2: How
(not?) to Talk to Monarchs: The Case of the Epicurean Diogenes of Seleucia
- Clive Chandler; Chapter 3: A Disillusioned Intellectual: Timagenes of
Alexandria - Livia Capponi; Chapter 4: Reassessing Ovid's Image of Tiberius
and his Principate - Sanjaya Thakur; Chapter 5: Entangled Imperial
Identities: Citizen, Subject, and Mentor in Plutarch's Aratus - Mallory
Monaco Caterine; Chapter 6: The Misleading Representations of Dion as
Philosopher-General in Plutarch's Life - Richard Evans; Chapter 7: Magister
Domino: Intellectual and Pedagogical Power in Fronto's Correspondence -
Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael; Chapter 8: Marcus Aurelius, Greek Poets, and
Greek Sophists: Friends or Foes? - Ewen Bowie; Chapter 9: Entertainers,
Persuaders, Adversaries: Interactions of Sophists and Rulers in
Philostratus' Lives of Sophists - Katarzyna Jäd¿ewska; Chapter 10: Lucian
on Roman Officials - Heinz-Günther Nesselrath; Chapter 11: How to Flatter
an Imperial Mistress: The Image of Panthea in Lucian's Imagines - Balbina
Bäbler; Chapter 12: Speaking Truth to Power: Julian, the Cynics, and the
Ethiopian Gymnosophists of Heliodorus - John Hilton; Index