Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World Ad 50-250

ISBN-13: 9780198152316 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 512 str.

Simon Swain

Opis

Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater then than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as a time of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studied in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.

Recenzje

This volume is a scholarly discussion of the attitudes of Greek intellectuals in the Roman Empire...From this meticulous examination of second sophistic literati Swain draws two broad conclusions that challenge traditional opinion...This book is a must for anyone interested in the evolution of Greek culture and the second sophistic.