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The Struggle for Identity

Greeks and their Past in the First Century BCE

Thomas A. Schmitz, Nicolas Wiater (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

305 Seiten

2011
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-09671-3 (ISBN)

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lt;p>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.

Thomas A. Schmitz teaches Greek language and literature at Bonn University. He has published widely on imperial Greek literature.

Nicolas Wiater is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. He has published on late Hellenistic and early Imperial Greek historiography and intellectual culture and is currently working on a book on conceptions of violence in early Greek poetry.

"This excellent book has achieved a great deal in starting to map a complex topic. Everyone interested in the Hellenism of later antiquity will need to read it." Antony Spawforth Sehepunkte 12, 2012/2

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.10.2011
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	528 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
Schlagworte	Altertumswissenschaften • Altphilologie • ca.NNV77 • Geschichte • Griechenland (Alt-G.); Geistes-/Kultur-Geschichte • Kulturelle Identität • Literaturwissenschaft • Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	3-515-09671-X / 351509671X
ISBN-13	978-3-515-09671-3 / 9783515096713
Zustand	Neuware