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Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue Jason Konig (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue By Jason Konig (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue by Jason Konig (University of St Andrews, Scotland)


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Argues for the need to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history. Explores a wide range of texts and genres, in prose and verse, showing how they engaged with their social, cultural and political contexts and with each other.

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue Summary

Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue by Jason Konig (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Late Hellenistic Greek literature, both prose and poetry, stands out for its richness and diversity. Recent work has tended to take an author-by-author approach that underestimates the interconnectedness of the literary culture of the period. The chapters assembled here set out to change that by offering new readings of a wide range of late Hellenistic texts and genres, including historiography, geography, rhetoric and philosophy, together with many verse texts and inscriptions. In the process, they offer new insights into the various ways in which late Hellenistic literature engaged with its social, cultural and political contexts, while interrogating and revising some of the standard narratives of the relationship between late Hellenistic and imperial Greek literary culture, which are too often studied in isolation from each other. As a whole the book prompts us to rethink the place of late Hellenistic literature within the wider landscape of Greek and Roman literary history.

About Jason Konig (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Jason Konig is a Professor of Classics at the University of St. Andrews. He has published widely on the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire. His books include Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (Cambridge, 2005) and Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (Cambridge, 2012). Nicolas Wiater is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Classics at the University of St. Andrews. He specialises in late Hellenistic and early imperial Greek literature. His publications include The Ideology of Classicism: Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus (2011) and, with T. A. Schmitz, The Struggle for Identity. Greeks and their Past in the First Century BCE (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction Jason Konig and Nicolas Wiater; 1. The empire becomes a body: power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater; 2. Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps: geography and empire in the Garland of Philip Thomas A. Schmitz; 3. Sailing the sea, sailing an image: periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines Mario Baumann; 4. Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature: landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus Jason Konig; 5. Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism: Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis Benjamin Gray; 6. The Wrath of the Sibyl: Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 Emma Greensmith; 7. Imagining belonging: the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome Joy Connolly; 8. Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography Myrto Hatzimichali; 9. Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities': Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history Felix K. Maier; 10. 'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim; 11. Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio: rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic Casper C. de Jonge; 12. Envoi: To live in Hellenistic times Simon Goldhill.

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NPB9781316516683
9781316516683
1316516687
Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue by Jason Konig (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-05-05
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