Hellenism and Empire : Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250
by
Swain
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198152310
ISBN-13
9780198152316
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 9th, 1998
Print length
512 Pages
Weight
686 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.20 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
European historyAncient history: to c 500 CENationalism
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Hellenism and Empire explores the rise of nationalism among the Greeks at the time of the Roman Empire, and their claims to cultural superiority over the Romans. It offers a radical reassessment of the traditional picture of Roman political and cultural domination.
Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater now than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as a time of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studies in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.
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