Fashioning the future in Roman Greece : memory, monuments, texts / Estelle Strazdins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strazdins, Estelle, author.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Osprey Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. She establishes that imperial Greek temporality was more complex than previously allowed by detailing how cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Modern Works:

Ancient Works:

A Note on Names

One: The Future and the 'Second Sophistic'

Part I: Glorious Past, Tense Present, Pending Future

Two: Back to the Future

2.1 Postclassicism, the Canon, and the Future

2.2 Remaking Space, Time, and Memory in Arrian's Periplous

2.3 Novelty and the Problem of Audience with Philostratos and Lucian

2.4 Creating Original Artistic Space in Aelius Aristeides' Sacred Tales

2.5 Conclusion

Three: Monuments and Rhetorical Materiality

3.1 Material Memories

3.2 Textual Curation of Artefactual Memory

3.3 Rhetorical Materiality

3.4 Conclusion

Part II: Textual Monuments and Monumental Texts

Four: The Epitaphic Habit

4.1 Speech, Text, Monument

4.2 Authority and Dominion: Boundaries and Limina

4.3 Arrian, Alexander, and the Textual Appropriation of Memory

4.4 Herodes Attikos and the Physical Appropriation of Memory

4.5 Conclusion

Five: Commemoration Embodied

5.1 Statue Honours and Their Limitations

5.2 Amplification: Statue Programmes on Monuments

5.3 Imaginary Spaces of Honour

5.4 Replication

5.5 Animation and Writing

5.6 Conclusion

Part III: Controlling the Future?

Six: The King of Athens

6.1 The Isthmus of Corinth: Hero, King, Tyrant, God?

6.2 Sophistic Tyranny, Imperial Democracy

6.3 The King of Words

6.4 Roman Philosopher, Greek Tyrant

6.5 Herodes and Theseus

6.6 Conclusion

Seven: The Politics of Posterity

Bibliography

General Index

Index Locorum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Strazdins, Estelle Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece

ISBN:

0-19-195686-4

0-19-269094-9

0-19-269095-7