Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds

2000
Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds

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  • Author: Oliver Taplin
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 9780192100207
  • Category : Classical literature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 620

The focus of this book--its new perspective--is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Twelve contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry to the end of the Roman empires in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. From the heights of Athens to the hellenistic Greek diaspora, from the great Augustans to the irresistible tide of Christianity, the contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important? --jacket.

Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World

2024-06-30
Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World

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  • Author: Giacomo Fedeli
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009464523
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 397

The first study of ancient Greek and Roman literary history as a phenomenon on its own terms.

Arrian the Historian

2021-04-20
Arrian the Historian

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  • Author: Daniel W. Leon
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN: 1477321861
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the period’s historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in favor of written accounts. One such author is Arrian of Nicomedia. Daniel W. Leon examines the works of Arrian to show how the era's historians responded to their sophistic peers’ claims of authority and played a crucial role in theorizing the past at a time when knowledge of history was central to defining Greek cultural identity. Best known for his history of Alexander the Great, Arrian articulated a methodical approach to the study of the past and a notion of historical progress that established a continuous line of human activity leading to his present and imparting moral and political lessons. Using Arrian as a case study in Greek historiography, Leon demonstrates how the genre functioned during the Imperial Period and what it brings to the study of the Roman world in the second century.

Beyond Greek

2016-01-01
Beyond Greek

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  • Author: Denis Feeney
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 0674496043
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 392

A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history. “Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney’s work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history—how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes—feel fresh and urgent again.” —Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement “[Feeney’s] bold theme and vigorous writing render Beyond Greek of interest to anyone intrigued by the history and literature of the classical world.” —The Economist

Past Perspectives

1986-01-30
Past Perspectives

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  • Author: I. S. Moxon
  • Publisher: CUP Archive
  • ISBN: 9780521266253
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

The ten papers that make up this volume were originally presented at a conference on 'The Greek and Roman Historians', held at the University of Leeds in 1983. Some of the articles investigate in detail the assumptions, prejudices and methods, which were brought to their works by writers as separate in time as Herodotus and Ammianus, as opposed in outlook as Thucydides and Dionysius, or as different in practical approach as Xenophon, Plutarch and Tacitus. Other papers, more wide-ranging in scope, examine respectively the validity of the traditions about early Rome, the function of historical writing in Rome of the second and first centuries BC, and the contemporary and later source material for the Caesarian tyrannicides. In an Epilogue the editors discuss the main themes that emerge from the collection.

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian

2005-07-22
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian

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  • Author: David Potter
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134962320
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read. Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like: * Cicero * Lucian * Aulus Gellius. Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World

2017-11-20
Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World

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  • Author: Antonia Sarri
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110426951
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 396

Letter writing was widespread in the Graeco-Roman world, as indicated by the large number of surviving letters and their extensive coverage of all social categories. Despite a large amount of work that has been done on the topic of ancient epistolography, material and formatting conventions have remained underexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of accessing images of letters in the past. Thanks to the increasing availability of digital images and the appearance of more detailed and sophisticated editions, we are now in a position to study such aspects. This book examines the development of letter writing conventions from the archaic to Roman times, and is based on a wide corpus of letters that survive on their original material substrates. The bulk of the material is from Egypt, but the study takes account of comparative evidence from other regions of the Graeco-Roman world. Through analysis of developments in the use of letters, variations in formatting conventions, layout and authentication patterns according to the sociocultural background and communicational needs of writers, this book sheds light on changing trends in epistolary practice in Graeco-Roman society over a period of roughly eight hundred years. This book will appeal to scholars of Epistolography, Papyrology, Palaeography, Classics, Cultural History of the Graeco-Roman World.

Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

2020-02-05
Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

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  • Author: Consuelo Ruiz-Montero
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527546594
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 405

Orality was the backbone of ancient Greek culture throughout its different periods. This volume will serve to deepen the reader’s knowledge of how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire. The studies included here approach the subject from both a literary and a sociocultural point of view, illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices. Topics considered include epigraphy, the rhetoric of transmitting the texts, language and speech, performance, theatre, narrative representation, material culture, and the interaction of different cultures. Since orality is a widespread phenomenon in the Greek-speaking world of the Roman Empire, this book draws the reader’s attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature

2013-11
The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature

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  • Author: Peter E. Knox
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0195395166
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 648

Each selection begins with a short biographical and historical essay.

Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

1998
Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

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  • Author: Teresa Morgan
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521584661
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 396

This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, including the first systematic comparison of literary sources with the papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, Teresa Morgan shows how education developed from a loose repertoire of practices in classical Greece into a coherent system spanning the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. She examines the teaching of literature, grammar and rhetoric across a range of social groups and proposes a model of how the system was able both to maintain its coherence and to accommodate pupils' widely different backgrounds, needs and expectations. In addition Dr Morgan explores Hellenistic and Roman theories of cognitive development, showing how educationalists claimed to turn the raw material of humanity into good citizens and leaders of society.