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Intro -- Series Page -- 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 Estelle Strazdins. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
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THE THESIS
This book investigates how Greek elites during the Roman Empire utilized memory, monuments, and literature to construct a vision of the future while navigating their complex relationship with a prestigious past. Estelle Strazdins, a scholar of the Second Sophistic, examines how authors and public figures of the period engaged with the weight of classical history to assert their own relevance and authority within the Roman imperial framework. By analyzing the intersection of material culture and rhetorical practice, the author argues that these figures were not merely looking backward, but were actively shaping their legacy for future generations.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Analysis of the 'Second Sophistic' intellectual movement and its engagement with postclassicism.
- Examination of the relationship between physical monuments and textual representation.
- Case studies on prominent figures such as Arrian, Philostratos, Lucian, Aelius Aristeides, and Herodes Attikos.
- Exploration of the 'epitaphic habit' and the use of statue programs to project authority.
Scope Limits
- The study focuses primarily on the elite intellectual and political classes of Roman Greece.
- It does not provide a comprehensive survey of daily life or non-elite social structures in the Roman provinces.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts in classical history recognize this work as a significant contribution to the study of cultural memory and the intellectual history of the Roman Empire. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is tailored for scholars and students of ancient history and classical literature.
Page Count:
0
Publication Date:
1900-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
ISBN-10:
0192690949
ISBN-13:
9780192690944
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Archaeology
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Cultural History
Ancient Greece
Roman History
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