Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy write by Basil Dufallo. This book was released on 2023-04-17. Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Roman Hellenism—defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power—begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think of the architecture of the Roman capital, the Campanian towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius, and the Hellenic culture of the Etruscans. Perhaps “everybody knows” that Rome adapted Greek culture in a steadily more “sophisticated” way as its prosperity and might increased. This volume, however, argues that the assumption of smooth continuity, let alone steady “improvement,” in any aspect of Roman Hellenism can blind us to important aspects of what Roman Hellenism really is and how it functions in a given context. As the first book to focus on the comparison of Roman Hellenisms per se, Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy shows that such comparison is especially valuable in revealing how any singular instance of the phenomenon is situated and specific, and has its own life, trajectory, circumstances, and afterlife. Roman Hellenism is always a work in progress, is often strategic, often falls prey to being forgotten, decontextualized, or reread in later periods, and thus is in important senses contingent. Further, what we may broadly identify as a Roman Hellenism need not imply Rome as the only center of influence. Roman Hellenism is often decentralized, and depends strongly on local agents, aesthetics, and materials. With this in mind, the essays concentrate geographically on Italy to lend both focus and breadth to our topic, as well as to emphasize the complex interrelation of Hellenism at Rome with Rome’s surroundings. Because Hellenism, whether as practiced by Romans or Rome’s subjects, is in fact widely diffused across far-flung geographical regions, the final part of the collection gestures to this broader context.
Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy
Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy write by Basil Dufallo. This book was released on 2023-04-17. Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines in detail the local, historical, and material circumstances that distinguish different types of Roman Hellenism
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire write by Phebe Lowell Bowditch. This book was released on 2023-05-22. Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism—in terms of visual spectacle (the military triumph), literary genre (epic in relation to elegy), material culture (art and luxury goods), and geographic space—as intersecting with ancient norms of gender and sexuality in a way that reinforces Rome’s dominance in the Mediterranean. The introductory chapter lays out the postcolonial frame, drawing from the work of Edward Said among other theorists, and situates love elegy in relation to Roman Hellenism and the varied Roman responses to Greece and its cultural influences. Four of the six subsequent chapters focus on the rhetorical ambivalence that characterizes love elegy’s treatment of Greek influence: the representation of the domina or mistress as simultaneously a figure for ‘captive Greece’ and a trope for Roman imperialism; the motif of the elegiac triumph, with varying figures playing the triumphator, as suggestive of Greco-Roman cultural rivalry; Rome’s competing visions of an Attic and an Asiatic Hellenism. The second and the final chapter focus on the figures of Osiris and Isis, respectively, as emblematic of Rome’s colonialist and ambivalent representation of Egypt, with the conclusion offering a deconstructive reading of elegy’s rhetoric of orientalism.
Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti
Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti write by Darja Šterbenc Erker. This book was released on 2023. Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ovid's Fasti comments on Augustan religion by means of ambivalent aetiologies, elegiac jokes and subtle allusions to the religious self-fashioning of the imperial family. Darja Sterbenc Erker carefully reconstructs Ovid's subtle unmasking of religious fundaments of Augustus' principate.
The Greek Words in Persius’ Literary Programme
The Greek Words in Persius’ Literary Programme - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greek Words in Persius’ Literary Programme write by Spyridon Tzounakas. This book was released on 2024-09-02. The Greek Words in Persius’ Literary Programme available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius’ programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literary criticism: they allow him to express his objection to the Graecizing poetic compositions of his day more convincingly, while facilitating intertextual dialogues with many writers. Greek words that occur in programmatic passages throw into relief various pathologies of poetry which Persius disapproves of and which contribute effectively to a justification of his rejection. However, this practice, which does not continue into the rest of his work, where Greek words are incorporated into the satirist’s thought more harmoniously, appears to serve specific expediencies and should not be considered characteristic of Persius’ attitude towards Greek culture in general. Besides, the satiric persona adopts a positive stance regarding Greek philosophy or comedy and criticizes the ignorant critics of Greek culture, while many aspects of Greek thought enrich his own poetry in several passages. Thus, despite the intensity with which he turns against the Graecizing compositions of his day, generalizations regarding an anti-Hellenic stance on Persius’ part should be deemed unfounded.
