Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 - Rilegato

Swain, Simon

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0198147724 ISBN 13: 9780198147725

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1996

Riassunto

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 now 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. 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 studies in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Simon Swain is at All Souls College, Oxford.

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Book by Swain Simon

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198147724
• ISBN 13: 9780198147725
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 512