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Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch
Häftad, 2011
435 kr
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Studies of religious interaction in the fourth century AD have often assumed that the categories of 'pagan', 'Christian' and 'Jew' can be straightforwardly applied, and that we can assess the extent of Christianization in the Graeco-Roman period. In contrast, in this text, Dr Sandwell tackles the …
Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power
Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire
Av Lea Niccolai
Häftad, 2025
422 kr
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This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise …
Fiction and Education in the Roman World
The Cultivation of the Reader
Häftad, 2026
710 kr
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What was fiction in the Roman world - and how did ancient readers learn to make sense of it? This book redefines ancient fiction not as a genre but as a sociocultural practice, governed by the institutions of Greco-Roman education. Drawing on modern fiction theory, it uncovers how fables, epic, and …
Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
Inbunden, 2011
1641 kr
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This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial …
The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire
Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians
Häftad, 2020
586 kr
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This book examines the role of social networks in the formation of identity among sophists, philosophers and Christians in the early Roman Empire. Membership in each category was established and evaluated socially as well as discursively. From clashes over admission to classrooms and communion to …
Preposterous Poetics
The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2020
1444 kr
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How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our …
The Christian Invention of Time
Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2022
716 kr
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Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation - under Christianity's influence - happened in late antiquity. It was then that time …
Roman Festivals in the Greek East
From the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era
Av Fritz Graf
Häftad, 2020
687 kr
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This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major …
Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
Häftad, 2008
935 kr
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From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some …
Describing Greece
Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias
Häftad, 2008
720 kr
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The Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With this work Professor Hutton examines Pausanias' arrangement and expression of his material and evaluates his authorial choices in light of the …
The Making of Roman India
Av Grant Parker
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes whereby the notion of India gained …
Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature
Av Lawrence Kim
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to …
Hellenism in Byzantium
The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition
Häftad, 2011
955 kr
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This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied …
The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire
Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor
Inbunden, 2009
1693 kr
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In the first two centuries AD, the eastern Roman provinces experienced a proliferation of elite public generosity unmatched in their previous or later history. In this study, Arjan Zuiderhoek attempts to answer the question why this should have been so. Focusing on Roman Asia Minor, he argues that …
Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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This 2010 volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates: in some cases, it was complementary with …
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Av Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the …
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean
Architecture, Cult, and Community
Inbunden, 2009
1928 kr
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This book explores the intersection between two key developments of the fourth through seventh centuries CE: the construction of monumental churches and the veneration of saints. While Christian sacred topography is usually interpreted in narrowly religious terms as points of contact with holy …
Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Returning Romance
Inbunden, 2011
1022 kr
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The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a …
Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture
Inbunden, 2011
2130 kr
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Why did Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employ the same body forms? The complex issue of the Roman copying of Greek 'originals' has so far been studied primarily from a formal and aesthetic viewpoint. Jennifer Trimble takes a broader perspective, considering …
Philostratus
Av Ewen Bowie, Jaś Elsner
Inbunden, 2009
2284 kr
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This is the first volume of collected papers to be devoted to the work of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world, and the most scintillating writer of Greek prose in the third century AD. The papers cover his remarkable range, from …
Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2005
2217 kr
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From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some …
Describing Greece
Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias
Inbunden, 2005
1928 kr
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The Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) by Pausanias is the most important example of non-fictional travel literature in ancient Greek. With this work Professor Hutton examines Pausanias' arrangement and expression of his material and evaluates his authorial choices in light of the …
The Making of Roman India
Av Grant Parker
Inbunden, 2008
1928 kr
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Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes whereby the notion of India gained …
Facing the Gods
Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion
Av Verity Platt
Inbunden, 2011
2214 kr
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This is the first history of epiphany as both a phenomenon and a cultural discourse within the Graeco-Roman world. It explores divine manifestations and their representations both in art and in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a …
Hellenism in Byzantium
The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition
Inbunden, 2008
2214 kr
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This text was the first systematic study of what it meant to be 'Greek' in late antiquity and Byzantium, an identity that could alternatively become national, religious, philosophical, or cultural. Through close readings of the sources, Professor Kaldellis surveys the space that Hellenism occupied …
Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch
Inbunden, 2007
1693 kr
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Studies of religious interaction in the fourth century AD have often assumed that the categories of 'pagan', 'Christian' and 'Jew' can be straightforwardly applied, and that we can assess the extent of Christianization in the Graeco-Roman period. In contrast, in this text, Dr Sandwell tackles the …
Saints and Symposiasts
The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture
Inbunden, 2012
1385 kr
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Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical …
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
Av Jason König, Nicolas Wiater
Häftad, 2023
682 kr
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Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by …
The Lives of Ancient Villages
Rural Society in Roman Anatolia
Inbunden, 2022
527 kr
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Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity, and almost …
Roman Ionia
Constructions of Cultural Identity in Western Asia Minor
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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How did the cities of Ionia construct and express a distinct sense of Ionian identity under Roman rule? With the creation of the Roman province of Asia and the ever-growing incorporation of the Greeks into the Roman Empire, issues of identity gained new relevance and urgency for the Greek …
