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

Contributor(s): Goldhill, Simon
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: viii, 395 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521663172Subject(s): Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D | Rome -- Civilization -- Greek influences | Rome -- Cultural policy | Rome -- Ethnic relations | Sophists (Greek philosophy)DDC classification: 937 LOC classification: DG78 | .B385 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DG78 .B385 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902324207

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

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.

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