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During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the period's historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in favor of written accounts. One such author is Arrian of Nicomedia. Daniel W. Leon examines the works of Arrian to show how the era's historians responded to their sophistic peers' claims of authority and played a crucial role in theorizing the past at a time when knowledge of history was central to defining Greek cultural identity. Best known for his history of Alexander the Great, Arrian articulated a methodical approach to the study of the past and a notion of historical progress that established a continuous line of human activity leading to his present and imparting moral and political lessons. Using Arrian as a case study in Greek historiography, Leon demonstrates how the genre functioned during the Imperial Period and what it brings to the study of the Roman world in the second century.

Arrian. --- Arrian --- Influence. --- Greece --- Rome --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- Historiography, historian, Classic Athens, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, ancient roman history, second sophistic, Second sophists, greek historiography, greek history.

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In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. Roman Eyes is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.

Arts, Classical. --- Visual perception. --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Roman aesthetics --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Classical arts --- Psychological aspects --- Adoration. --- Aelius Aristides. --- Aeschylus. --- Agalmatophilia. --- Anchises. --- Ancient Greek art. --- Ancient Rome. --- Anecdote. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Apuleius. --- Art history. --- Atargatis. --- Bathing. --- Bibliography. --- Capitoline Museums. --- Castration. --- Christian apologetics. --- Conflation. --- Cooling. --- Cult image. --- Cupid and Psyche. --- De Dea Syria. --- Deity. --- Diana and Actaeon. --- Drapery. --- Ekphrasis. --- Epigram. --- Epithet. --- Eroticism. --- Genre. --- Greco-Roman world. --- H II region. --- Hagiography. --- Hare Krishna (mantra). --- Harpocrates. --- Hellenization. --- Hierapolis. --- Hieros gamos. --- Hydrogen line. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- In the Water. --- Indulgence. --- Initiation. --- Ionic Greek. --- Ionization. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leucippe and Clitophon. --- Libation. --- Mimesis. --- Narrative logic. --- Narrative. --- Neo-Attic. --- Number density. --- Oculus. --- Our Choice. --- Parody. --- Philostratus. --- Photon. --- Piety. --- Poetry. --- Polytheism. --- Posture (psychology). --- Praxiteles. --- Procession. --- Pubic hair. --- Putto. --- Queen of Heaven. --- Reionization. --- Religion and sexuality. --- Religious image. --- Rite. --- Roman art. --- Satire. --- Sculpture. --- Second Sophistic. --- Self-consciousness. --- Sensibility. --- Serapis. --- Sexual intercourse. --- Sincerity. --- Social reality. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophistication. --- Star formation. --- Subjectivity. --- Temperature. --- The Golden Ass. --- The Last Sentence. --- The Sea Monster. --- Theatricality. --- Venus Anadyomene. --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Verisimilitude. --- Viewing (funeral). --- Voluptas. --- Voyeurism. --- Vulva. --- Writing. --- Zeuxis. --- Romans --- Aesthetics. --- Religious life.