UID:
almahu_9947414840302882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 395 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511627323 (ebook)
Content:
These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating perspective on a crucial era of western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige. At the same time, Christianity and Judaism were vying for followers against the lures of such an elite cultural life. This book looks at how writers in Greek from all areas of Empire society respond to their political position, to intellectual authority, to religions and social pressures. It explores the interesting cultural clashes from which Christianity emerged to dominate the Empire. It presents a series of brilliant insights into how the culture of Empire functions and offers a fascinating and alternative understanding of the long history of imperialism and cultural conflict.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Setting an agenda : "everything is Greece to the wise" /
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From megalopolis to cosmopolis : Polybius, or there and back again /
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Mutilated messengers : body language in Josephus /
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Roman questions, Greek answers : Plutarch and the construction of identity /
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Describing self in the language of the other : Pseudo Lucian at the temple of Hierapolis /
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The erotic eye : visual stimulation and cultural conflict /
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Visions and revisions of Homer /
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"Greece is the world" : exile and identity in the second sophistic /
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Local heroes : athletics, festivals and elite self-fashioning in the Roman east /
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The rabbi in Aphrodite's bath : Palestinian society and Jewish identity in the high Roman Empire /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521663175
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627323
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