The Struggle for Identity (eBook)

Greeks and their Past in the First Century BCE

Nicolas Wiater, Thomas A. Schmitz (Herausgeber)

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2012
305 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-09936-3 (ISBN)

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In the first century BCE, Greek intellectuals had to come to terms with the stability of Roman power. Many of them were active in Rome, which became the cultural centre of the Greek world; others were connected with Roman patrons. Their work became important for the emergence of Greek identity in the Roman Empire.

Bringing together an international group of leading Classical scholars, this volume represents the first attempt at a comprehensive study of Greek cultural identity in the first century: how did the Romans influence the Greeks' view(s) of themselves and of their classical heritage? How did the Greeks interpret the Romans and their role in the world? Covering such different genres as historiography, literary criticism, the novel, and epigram, as well as archaeological material, the contributions explore the intellectual diversity of one of the most significant periods in history and situate the authors active under Augustus within their broader intellectual-historical context.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
List of Contributors 10
List of Illustrations 14
Introduction: Approaching Greek Identity 16
Greek Classicism 48
Writing Roman History – Shaping Greek Identity: The Ideology of Historiography in Dionysius of Halicarnassus 62
The Style of the Past: Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Context 94
Impacts of Writing in Rome: Greek Authors and Their Roman Environment in the First Century 116
Latin, Attic, and other Greek Dialects: Criteria of ??????????in Grammatical Treatises of the First Century 126
Augustus chlamydatus. Greek Identity and the bios Kaisaros by Nicolaus of Damascus 144
Principate and System 164
Men from Mytilene 182
Greek Poets and Roman Patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire 198
Who Cared about Greek Identity? Athens in the First Century 214
The Image of Athens in Diodorus Siculus 236
Paideia and the Function of Homeric Quotations in Chariton’s Callirhoe 254
Bibliography 274
Index 296
Passages Discussed 304

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 4 schw.-w. Abb.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Altertumswissenschaft • Altphilologie • Geschichte • Identität
• ISBN-10: 3-515-09936-0 / 3515099360
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-09936-3 / 9783515099363