This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the world of visual and material culture. Within the volume a distinguished group of scholars explores topics such as the affirmation of identity via language choice in epigraphy; the use of genre (dialogue, declamation, biography, the novel) to express resistant positions; identity negotiation in the scintillating and often satirical Greek essays of Lucian; and the place of religion in resisting hegemonic power.
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Introduction: Articulating resistance Daniel Jolowicz and Jaś Elsner; Part I. Language and Identity: 1. Linguistic resistance to Rome: A reappraisal of the epigraphic evidence Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair; Part II. Genres of Literary Resistance: 2. Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late antique philosophical dialogues Dawn LaValle Norman; 3. Greek declamation and the art of resistance Will Guast; 4. Plutarch's parallelism and resistance Eran Almagor; 5. A glitch in the matrix: Aphrodisias, Rome and imperial Greek fiction Daniel Jolowicz; Part III. Identity Negotiation: 6. Portraying power: Lucian's imagines and Marcus Aurelius' meditations Nicolò D'Alconzo; 7. Satire and the polis in Lucian's Timon or The Misanthrope Aneurin Ellis-Evans; Part IV. Religion and Resistance: 8. Anti-Roman Sibyl(s) Helen Van Noorden; 9. Traditions of resistance in Greco-Egyptian narratives Ian Rutherford; 10. Julian the emperor and the reaction against Christianity: A case study of resistance from the top Lea Niccolai; Epilogue: Resisting resistance Simon Goldhill.
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Explores the diverse forms of elite resistance to and in the Roman Empire, often in subtle and silent ways.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781108484909
Publisert
2023-01-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
610 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300