Roman rule in Greek and Latin Writing ：Double Vision ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Double Vision

Publication series ：1

Author： Madsen   Jesper Majbom;Rees   Roger David  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9789004278288

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004277380

Subject： I106 the classics and study

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Roman Greek

1 Patriotism and Ambitions: Intellectual Response to Roman Rule in the High Empire

2 Becoming Wolf, Staying Sheep

3 Accommodation, Opposition or Other? Luke-Acts’ Stance Towards Rome

4 Adopting the Emperor: Pliny’s Praise-giving as Cultural Appropriation

5 The Representation of Greek Diplomacy in Tacitus

6 Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War

7 ‘Heus tu, rhetorisce’: Gellius, Cicero, Plutarch, and Roman Study Abroad

8 Triple Vision: Ulpian of Tyre on the Duties of the Proconsul

9 Greek History in a Roman Context: Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander

10 Herodian on Greek and Roman Failings

11 Images of Elite Community in Philostratus: Re-Reading the Preface to the Lives of the Sophists

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