Intellectual and empire in Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by Philip R. Bosman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosman, Philip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical.

Civilization.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xx, 221 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

Enlightened king or pragmatic rulers? : Ptolemaic patronage of scholarship and sciences in context / Francesca Schironi

How (not?) to talk to monarchs: The case of the Epicurean Diogenes of Seleucia / Clive Chandler

A disillusioned intellectual : Timagenes of Alexandria / Livia Capponi

Reassessing Ovid's image of Tiberius and his principate / Sanjaya Thakur

Entangled imperial identities : Citizen, subject, and mentor in Plutarch's Aratus / Mallory Monaco Caterine

The misleading representations of Dion as philosopher-general in Plutarch's life / Richard Evans

Magister Domino : intellectual and pedagogical power in Fronto's correspondence / Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael

Marcus Aurelius, Greek poets, and Greek Sophists : friends or foes? / Ewen Bowie

Entertainers, persuaders, adversaries : interactions of Sophists and rulers in Philostratus' lives of Sophists / Katarzyna Jazdzewska

Lucian on Roman officials / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

How to flatter an imperial mistress: The image of Panthea in Lucian's imagines / Balbina Bäbler

Speaking truth to power : Julian, the cynics, and the Ethiopian gymnosophists of Heliodorus / John Hilton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity

ISBN:

9781138505094

1138505099

OCLC:

1019997896

Publisher Number:

99978139442