Greek Culture in the Roman World #: Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World

Greek Culture in the Roman World #: Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World
Tim Whitmarsh
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This 2010 volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates: in some cases, it was complementary with imperial objectives, but in others tension can be discerned. The volume as a whole seeks to add texture and nuance to the existing literature on Greek identity, which has tended in recent years to emphasise the umbrella category of the Greek, to the detriment of specific polis and regional identities. It also contributes to the growing literature on the Romanisation of provinces, by emphasising the dialogue between a region' s self-identification as a distinct space and its self-awareness as a component of the centrally-governed empire.

Christian Invention of Time, The: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture: Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 BC-AD 250
Homer in Stone: The Tabulae Iliacae in Their Roman Context
Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World
Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic
Philostratus
Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire, The: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor
Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity
Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity
Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic, The
Rethinking the Gods: Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult and Community
Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture
Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire, The: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians
Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture

' . . . an interesting volume on an interesting subject. ' Arctos
Tim Whitmarsh is fellow, tutor and E. P. Warren Praelector at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. A specialist in Greek literature and culture of the Roman period, he has written over 50 books and articles on the topic, including Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation (Oxford University Press, 2001) and The Second Sophistic (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He has lectured all over the world, appeared on BBC radio, and written for the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.
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ISBN-13: 9781108984973
Published: 21 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 332g
Pages: 242

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