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Author: Estelle Amber Strazdins Publisher: ISBN: 9780191956867 Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman Languages : en Pages : 0
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Estelle Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. She establishes that imperial Greek temporality was more complex than previously allowed by detailing how cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future.
Author: Estelle Amber Strazdins Publisher: ISBN: 9780191956867 Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman Languages : en Pages : 0
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Estelle Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. She establishes that imperial Greek temporality was more complex than previously allowed by detailing how cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future.
Author: Estelle Strazdins Publisher: ISBN: 9780192690944 Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman Languages : en Pages : 0
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Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. She establishes that imperial Greek temporality was more complex than previously allowed by detailing how cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future.
Author: Estelle Strazdins Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192690957 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 393
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Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. This wide-ranging work challenges conventional thinking about the temporal positioning of imperial Greece and the so-called 'Second Sophistic', which holds that it was obsessed above all with the Classical past. Instead, the volume establishes that imperial Greek temporality was far more complex than scholarship has previously allowed by detailing how contemporary cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future. At the same time, the book emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary analysis in any explication of elite culture in Roman Greece, since abundant extant evidence reveals its purveyors were often responsible for the production of both literature and material culture. Strazdins shows how these two modes of cultural production in the hands of elites, such as Herodes Atticus, Arrian, Aelius Aristides, Lucian, Dio Chrysostom, Polemon, Pausanias, and Philostratus, exhibit a shared rhetoric oriented towards posterity and informed by a heightened awareness of the fragility of cultural and personal memory over large spans of time. The book thus provides a sophisticated analysis of the tensions, anxieties, and opportunities that attend the fashioning of commemorative strategies against the background of the 'Second Sophistic' and the Roman empire, and details the consequences of embroilment with futurity on our understanding of the cultural and political concerns of elite imperial Greeks.
Author: Richard Teverson Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 104010391X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time and the role of artwork in Roman imperial systems. This book focuses on four kingdoms from across the empire: Cottius’s Alpine kingdom in the north, King Juba II’s Mauretania in the south-west, Herodian Judea in the east, and Kommagene to the north-east. Art from the imperial frontier is rarely considered through the lens of the aesthetics of time, and Roman provincial art and the monuments of allied rulers are typically interpreted as evidence of the interaction between Roman and local identities. In this interdisciplinary study, which explores statues, wall paintings, coins, monuments, and inscriptions, readers learn that these artworks served as something more: they were created to represent the futures that allied rulers and their people foresaw. The pressure of Roman imperialism drove patrons and artists on the empire’s borders to imbue their creations with increasingly sophisticated ideas about the future, as they wrestled with consequential decisions made under periods of intense political pressure. Comprehensively illustrated and providing an important new approach to Roman material culture at the edge of empire, Visions of the Future in Roman Frontier Kingdoms 100 BCE–100 CE is suitable for students and scholars working on Rome and its frontiers, as well as Roman material culture more broadly, and those studying the aesthetics of time in art and art history.
Author: Cyril Bailey Publisher: ISBN: 9781330639023 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 32
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Excerpt from Some Greek and Roman Ideas of a Future Life I remember being greatly struck a few years ago by the remark of the vicar of a large suburban parish on the outskirts of a big Midland town. "I have no doubt," he said, "that the real religion of these people centres not in the Church but in the churchyard." But when I asked him what they believed about the continued existence of their dead kin, he replied that it was impossible to say: "Their beliefs are very various and very vague, but the reality of the existence of their friends is most vivid to them here in the churchyard." There was no doubt some exaggeration in his verdict - and certainly a note of pessimism - but I could not help feeling myself transported across the centuries to the old world of Greece and Rome, and thinking for the moment how little the mind of man has changed. There, too, we have as what might be called the "established" religion a noble conception of personal powers or deities controlling the destinies of the world and tending towards an idealized monotheism not so far distant in some respects from our own conception of God - and under it all in the mind of the common people, as recent investigators have shown, perhaps again with some exaggeration, a persistent clinging to chthonic notions and chthonic rites, associated closely with a belief in the continued existence of the dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Erich S. Gruen Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004090514 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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This book is an examination of the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. Acclaimed historian Erich S. Gruen discusses the introduction of and resistance to new cults, the relationship between Roman political figures and literary artists schooled in Greek, and the reaction to Hellenic philosophy and rhetoric by the Roman elite. This book contributes new and important information on the place of Greek culture in Roman public life.
Author: Antony Spawforth Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acculturation Languages : en Pages : 319
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This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial-Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate"
Author: Estelle Amber Strazdins
Author: Estelle Amber Strazdins
Author: Estelle Strazdins
Author: Estelle Strazdins
Author: Richard Teverson
Author: Jonathan J. Price
Author: Cyril Bailey
Author: Cyril Bailey
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Author: Cyril Bailey
Author: Antony Spawforth