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Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire

By Jas Elsner , Daniel Jolowicz

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
1108484905, 9781108484909
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2492444 bytes)
Pages
313\315
Topic
History
Time added
2023-01-02 13:33:22

Description

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.

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