Whitmarsh, Tim: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire

The Politics of Imitation. Focusing upon a series of key texts by important authors (including Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, Philostratus, Lucian, Favorinus, and the novelists), Whitmarsh argues that narratives telling of educated Greeks' philosophical advice to empowered Romans (including emperors) offer a crucial point of entry into the complex and often ambivalent relationships between Roman conquerors and Greek subjects. Their authors' rich and complex engagement with the literary past articulates an ingenious and sophisticated response to their present socio-political circumstances. - Contents: Introduction. - Part One: The Politics of Imitation. 1: Repetition: The Crisis of Posterity; 2: Education: Strategies of Self-making. - Part Two: Greece and Rome. 3: Rome Uncivilized: Exile and the Kingdom; 4: Civilizing Rome: Greek Pedagogy and the Roman Emperor; 5:Satirizing Rome: Lucian. - Conclusion. - Appendix One: Translation of Favorinus, "On Exile"; Appendix Two: The Performative Context of Dio's "Kingships". - Bibliography. - XIV,378 Seiten, broschiert (Oxford University Press 2004) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren(clean text pages, minor traces of use

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