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Beyond the Second Sophistic
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ISBN: 0520957024 9780520957022 0520276817 9780520276819 9780520276819 0520344588 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a rich, dynamic, and diverse culture, which cannot be reduced to a simple model of continuity. Shining new light on a series of playful, imaginative texts that are left out of the traditional accounts of Greek literature, Whitmarsh models a more adventurous, exploratory approach to later Greek culture. Beyond the Second Sophistic offers not only a new way of looking at Greek literature from 300 BCE onwards, but also a challenge to the Eurocentric, aristocratic constructions placed on the Greek heritage. Accessible and lively, it will appeal to students and scholars of Greek literature and culture, Hellenistic Judaism, world literature, and cultural theory.

Ordering knowledge in the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9780521296939 9780521859691 0521859697 9780511551062 9780511508103 0511508107 9780511504075 0511504071 0511551061 1107177618 9786612058233 0511507445 1282058231 051150876X 051150621X 0521296935 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing and critiquing a range of modern cultural theories (including those of Michel Foucault and Edward Said). How was knowledge shaped into textual forms, and how did those forms encode relationships between emperor and subjects, theory and practice, Roman and Greek, centre and periphery? Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire will be required reading for those concerned with the intellectual and cultural history of the Roman Empire, and its lasting legacy in the medieval world and beyond.


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Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : returning romance
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ISBN: 9780521823913 0521823919 9780511975332 9781107491021 1107491029 1139036432 1107225523 9786613055101 1139041894 1139041126 113904267X 1139038753 0511975333 1283055104 113904530X 9781139042673 9781139038751 Year: 2011 Volume: *12 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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"The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory"--


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The romance between Greece and the East
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ISBN: 9781107038240 1107038243 9781139814690 9781107543003 1306211824 1139891839 1107461456 1107543002 1139814699 1107472202 1107468655 1107465133 1107473217 9781107465138 9781461953593 1461953596 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh readings - from an intercultural perspective - of familiar texts (such as the biblical Esther and Ecclesiastes, Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Story and Dictys of Crete's Journal), or introduce material that may be new to many readers: from demotic Egyptian papyri through old Avestan hymns to a Turkic translation of the Life of Aesop. The volume also considers issues of methodology and the history of scholarship on the topic. A concluding section deals with the question of how narratives, patterns and motifs may have come to be transmitted between cultures.


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Galen and the world of knowledge
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ISBN: 9780521767514 0521767512 9780511770623 9781107410749 9780511769832 0511769830 0511770626 0511847955 1107209099 1107410746 1282651641 9786612651649 0511768990 0511766769 0511765371 051176815X 9781282651647 Year: 2009 Volume: *9 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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"This volume of new essays is based on a conference with the same title held at the University of Exeter in 2005. All those speaking on that occasion have written chapters in this volume, along with Riccardo Chiaradonna whose chapter has been specially prepared for the volume. The aim of this volume, like the conference on which it is based, is to contribute to the upsurge of new research on Galen by focusing on a topic that bridges the interests of specialists in ancient medical history and Classicists and philosophers more generally. The conference also represents the convergence of two current focuses of research in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Exeter, on ancient medicine especially Galen and on Hellenistic and Imperial Greek culture more generally"--Provided by publisher.

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