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xiv, 377 p. ; 22 cm

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377

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Cover of: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation
March 11, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation
February 25, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
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Greek literature and the Roman empire: the politics of imitation
2001, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Literature, Power, and Culture
A Geography of the Imagination
Imitation and Identity
The Politics of Imitation
PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF IMITATIO1
i. Repetition: The Crisis of Posterity
A Secondary Society
Repetition and Mimesis
Rescuing Mimesis
Sublime Mimesis
Art and Artifice
Conclusion: From 'Past and Present' to 'Prior and
Posterior'
2. Education: Strategies of Self-Making
Strategies of Self-Making
Paideia and Social Status
Paideia and Gender
Paideia and Hellenism
Pedagogy, Identity, Power
PART TWO: GREECE AND ROME
3. Rome Uncivilized: Exile and the Kingdom
Exile and the Kingdom
Musonius Rufus, the 'Roman' 'Socrates'
Dio Chrysostom: Exile and Sophistry
Favorinus: Exile and Literary Alienation
Conclusion
4. Civilizing Rome: Greek Pedagogy and the Roman
Emperor
Staging Philosophy: The Dionic Man
The Kingship orations: Performance and/of Power
Staging the Self: Sophistry in Motion
Greek Pedagogy and Roman Rule
Marcus Aurelius: Internalized Pedagogy
Dio and Philostratus
Conclusion: On Kingship
5. Satirizing Rome: Lucian
Satire and Satirical Identity
Rome, City of Spectacles
The Satirical Show
Nigrinus: Yearning for Philosophy
The Wrongs of Passage: On salaried posts
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendices:
i. Translation of Favorinus, On Exile (P.Vat. Ii)
2. The Performative Context of Dio's Kingship orations
References
Index Locorum
Index of Greek Words
General Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-364) and indexes.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/237038
Library of Congress
PA3086 .W48 2001, PA3086.W48 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 377 p. ;
Number of pages
377

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3947985M
Internet Archive
greekliteraturer0000whit
ISBN 10
0199240353
LCCN
2001036382
OCLC/WorldCat
47243847

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