Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.
Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Introduction Jason König and Nicolas Wiater; 1. The empire becomes a body: power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater; 2. Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps: geography and empire in the Garland of Philip Thomas A. Schmitz; 3. Sailing the sea, sailing an image: periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines Mario Baumann; 4. Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature: landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus Jason König; 5. Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism: Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis Benjamin Gray; 6. The Wrath of the Sibyl: Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 Emma Greensmith; 7. Imagining belonging: the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome Joy Connolly; 8. Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography Myrto Hatzimichali; 9. Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities': Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history Felix K. Maier; 10. 'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim; 11. Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio: rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic Casper C. de Jonge; 12. Envoi: To live in Hellenistic times Simon Goldhill.
Introduction Jason König and Nicolas Wiater; 1. The empire becomes a body: power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater; 2. Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps: geography and empire in the Garland of Philip Thomas A. Schmitz; 3. Sailing the sea, sailing an image: periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines Mario Baumann; 4. Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature: landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus Jason König; 5. Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism: Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis Benjamin Gray; 6. The Wrath of the Sibyl: Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 Emma Greensmith; 7. Imagining belonging: the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome Joy Connolly; 8. Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography Myrto Hatzimichali; 9. Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities': Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history Felix K. Maier; 10. 'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim; 11. Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio: rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic Casper C. de Jonge; 12. Envoi: To live in Hellenistic times Simon Goldhill.
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