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Articulating resistance under the Roman Empire
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- Creator
- edited by Daniel Jolowicz, Jaś Elsner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 303 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9781108718851, 9781108753425, 1108753426, 9781108484909
- OCLC
- on1345466525
- This volume derives from a seminar series held at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 2014 under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity, and a one day colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, in 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Articulating resistance / Daniel Jolowicz and Jaś Elsner -- Chapter 1: Linguistic resistance to Rome: a re-appraisal of the epigraphic evidence / Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair -- Chapter 2: Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late antique philosophical dialogues / Dawn LaValle Norman -- Chapter 3: Greek declamation and the art of resistance / Will Guast -- Chapter 4: Plutarch's parallelism and resistance / Eran Almagor -- Chapter 5: A glitch in the matrix: Aphrodisias, Rome and imperial Greek fiction / Daniel Jolowicz -- Chapter 6: Portraying power: Lucian's Imagines and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations / Nicolò D'Alconzo -- Chapter 7: Satire and the polis in Lucian's Timon or The Misanthrope / Aneurin Ellis-Evans -- Chapter 8: Anti-Roman Sibyl(s) / Helen Van Noorden -- Chapter 9: Traditions of resistance in Greco-Egyptian narratives / Ian Rutherford -- Chapter 10: Julian the Emperor and the reaction against Christianity: a case study of resistance from the top / Lea Niccolai -- Epilogue: Resisting resistance / Simon Goldhill
Subjects
- Government, Resistance to -- Rome -- History.
- Civilization -- Roman influences.
- Politics and literature -- Rome -- History.
- Politics and culture -- Rome -- History.
- Classical literature -- Political aspects.
- Classical literature -- History and criticism.
- Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
- Rome -- Politics and government -- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.