Research Catalog

Title

Being Greek under Rome : cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire / edited by Simon Goldhill.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Goldhill, Simon.

Description

viii, 395 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
• Rome > Cultural policy
• Rome > Ethnic relations
• Rome > Civilization > Greek influences
• Sophists (Greek philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-389) and indexes.

Contents

Setting an agenda : "everything is Greece to the wise" / Simon Goldhill -- From megalopolis to cosmopolis : Polybius, or there and back again / John Henderson -- Mutilated messengers : body language in Josephus / Maud Gleason -- Roman questions, Greek answers : Plutarch and the construction of identity / Rebecca Preston -- Describing self in the language of the other : Pseudo (?) Lucian at the temple of Hierapolis / Jaś Elsner -- The erotic eye : visual stimulation and cultural conflict / Simon Goldhill -- Visions and revisions of Homer / Froma I. Zeitlin -- "Greece is the world" : exile and identity in the second sophistic / Tim Whitmarsh -- Local heroes : athletics, festivals and elite self-fashioning in the Roman east / Onno van Nijf -- The rabbi in Aphrodite's bath : Palestinian society and Jewish identity in the high Roman Empire / Seth Schwartz.

Call Number

JFE 03-13931

ISBN

0521663172

LCCN

00064234

OCLC

44883520

Title

Being Greek under Rome : cultural identity, the second sophistic and the development of empire / edited by Simon Goldhill.

Imprint

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-389) and indexes.

Added Author

Goldhill, Simon.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-13931