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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.
Greek literature --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- History and criticism. --- Greek literature -- Rome -- History and criticism.. --- Greek literature -- History and criticism. --- ancient literature. --- aristocratic constructions. --- classics. --- different model. --- diverse culture. --- engaging. --- exploratory approach. --- greco-jewish material. --- greek culture. --- greek heritage. --- greek literature. --- greek oratory. --- greek rhetoric. --- hellenic civilization. --- hellenistic judaism. --- historical. --- history. --- literary. --- roman empire. --- rome. --- second sophistic.
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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.
Knowledge, Theory of --- History. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- History --- Knowledge management --- Learning and scholarship --- Writing --- Rome --- Intellectual life --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Vie intellectuelle --- Information organization --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Information storage and retrieval --- Organization of information --- Information science --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Intellectual life. --- Arts and Humanities --- Knowledge management - Rome --- Learning and scholarship - Rome --- Writing - History - To 1500 --- Rome - Intellectual life
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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"--
Greek fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Roman grec --- Narration --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Literary collections --- Ancient, Classical & Medieval --- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)
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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.
Greek fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Comparative literature --- Roman grec --- Narration --- Littérature comparée --- History and criticism. --- History --- Greek and Middle Eastern. --- Middle Eastern and Greek. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Grecque et moyen-orientale --- Moyen-orientale et grecque --- Greece --- Grèce --- Civilization --- Middle Eastern influences. --- Civilisation --- Influence moyen-orientale --- Littérature comparée --- Grèce --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Greek and Middle Eastern --- Middle Eastern and Greek --- History and criticism --- Middle East --- Grecque et moyen-orientale. --- Influence moyen-orientale. --- Arts and Humanities --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)
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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.
Physicians --- Greek World --- History, Ancient. --- Philosophy, Medical --- Roman World --- Biography. --- Congresses. --- history. --- Galen. --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Allopathic doctors --- Doctors --- Doctors of medicine --- MDs (Physicians) --- Medical doctors --- Medical profession --- Medical personnel --- Medicine --- Galenus, Claudius. --- Galenus --- Galen, Claudius --- Galenus, Claudius --- Galen, --- Galénos --- Galeno --- Galen, Klavdiĭ --- Galinus --- Galiʼenus --- Galiʼeno --- Galiʼenu --- Galien, --- Galeno, Claudio --- جالينوس --- Γαλῆνος --- Galênós, --- Pseudo-Galenus --- Claudius Galenus --- Galen --- Galien, Claude --- Galeni --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- History, Ancient --- history --- Physicians. --- Galien, Claude (0131?-0201?) --- Critique et interprétation
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