Greek Culture in the Roman World #: Philostratus

Greek Culture in the Roman World #: Philostratus
Jas Elsner, Ewen Bowie
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11 Feb 2021 UK
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9781108994552
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This is the first volume of collected papers to be devoted to the work of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world, and the most scintillating writer of Greek prose in the third century AD. The papers cover his remarkable range, from hagiographic fiction to historical dialogue, from pictorial description to love letters, and from prescriptions for gymnastics to the lives of the Sophists. The quality of his writing and the concerns within his purview - religion, aesthetics, athletics and education - make Philostratus' s writings among the most important documents for understanding Greek culture in the Roman world, and guide us in exploring the maturity of Hellenic cultural identity in the context of the rise of Christianity. Few studies have been devoted to this neglected figure, and this collection will therefore be of great value to scholars and students of imperial Greek literature and art.

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

' . . . [has] sections dedicated to each of Philostratus' writings. These are preceded by three introductory pieces, starting with Jas Elsner' s ' A Protean Corpus' . Elsner . . . takes a close look at how Philostratus works from within each genre he chooses to appropriate and whose conventions he subtly subverts by turning them ' into the theme of the text' . . . . In its emphasis on unity in diversity, this is much more than just another summarising introduction; rather, we are invited to adopt a new, holistic perspective on Philostratus. ' Listy Filologicke
Ewen Bowie was E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1965-2007 and has written extensively on the Greek culture of the Roman empire. Jas Elsner teaches classical art at Oxford University and the University of Chicago.
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ISBN-13: 9781108994552
Published: 11 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 552g
Pages: 413

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