Articulating resistance under the Roman Empire / edited by Daniel Jolowicz, Jaś Elsner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jolowicz, Daniel, 1986- editor, author.

Elsner, Jaś, editor, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government, Resistance to--Rome--History.

Government, Resistance to.

Civilization--Roman influences.

Civilization.

Politics and literature--Rome--History.

Politics and literature.

Politics and culture--Rome--History.

Politics and culture.

Classical literature--Political aspects.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Rome--Politics and government--30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the world of visual and material culture. Within the volume a distinguished group of scholars explores topics such as the affirmation of identity via language choice in epigraphy; the use of genre (dialogue, declamation, biography, the novel) to express resistant positions; identity negotiation in the scintillating and often satirical Greek essays of Lucian; and the place of religion in resisting hegemonic power.

Contents:

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Articulating resistance / Daniel Jolowicz and Jaś Elsner

Chapter 1: Linguistic resistance to Rome: a re-appraisal of the epigraphic evidence / Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair

Chapter 2: Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late antique philosophical dialogues / Dawn LaValle Norman

Chapter 3: Greek declamation and the art of resistance / Will Guast

Chapter 4: Plutarch's parallelism and resistance / Eran Almagor

Chapter 5: A glitch in the matrix: Aphrodisias, Rome and imperial Greek fiction / Daniel Jolowicz

Chapter 6: Portraying power: Lucian's Imagines and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations / Nicolò D'Alconzo

Chapter 7: Satire and the polis in Lucian's Timon or The Misanthrope / Aneurin Ellis-Evans

Chapter 8: Anti-Roman Sibyl(s) / Helen Van Noorden

Chapter 9: Traditions of resistance in Greco-Egyptian narratives / Ian Rutherford

Chapter 10: Julian the Emperor and the reaction against Christianity: a case study of resistance from the top / Lea Niccolai

Epilogue: Resisting resistance / Simon Goldhill.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Jan 2023).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-296) and index.

ISBN:

1-108-60211-8

1-108-60578-8

1-108-75342-6