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

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

Hellenism and Empire: La. .has been added to your Cart this book presents thought-provoking treatments of many of the major Greek authors of the second sophistic.

Hellenism and Empire: La.has been added to your Cart. is certainly important reading for anyone working on any of the sophists, rhetors, philosophers, intellecturals, novelists or litterati of the first centuries, or more generally on Greek culture under Roman domination.

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 th.

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. 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.

Publication: Oxford (UK) : Clarendon Press, 1996Description: xii, 499 p . SBN: 0-19-815231-0. Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. -474) and index. Subject: Греческая литература, эллинистическая - История и критицизм, Greek literature, Hellenistic - History and criticism Греческий язык, эллинистический (300 до . 600 . Powered by Koha.

The Later Greek Élite - Simon Swain: Hellenism and Empire. Pp. xii + 499. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Cased, £50. ISBN: 0-19-814772-4. A. J. S. Spawforth (a1).

Simon Swain, Hellenism and Empire. Dio Chrysostom (Oxford, 2000). Aldo Brancacci, Rhetorike philosophousa. Texts of Dio. Complete works at LacusCurtius (English translation complete; some items in Greek also).

Personal Author: Swain, Simon. Appendices - Bibliography - Bibliographical addenda - Index.

Hellenism and Empire explores Greek identity, politics, and culture in the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second .

Hellenism and Empire explores Greek identity, politics, and culture in the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of the classical Greeks, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and the Greek heritage was far greater then than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as one of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. Simon Swain, Professor of Classics, University of Warwick. Hellenism and Empire.