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Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Enlightened Kings or Pragmatic Rulers? Ptolemaic Patronage of Scholarship and Sciences in Context -- Libraries -- Recruitment and retention of scholars -- Research institutions...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
: Routledge
, 2018
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5453448 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Enlightened Kings or Pragmatic Rulers? Ptolemaic Patronage of Scholarship and Sciences in Context -- Libraries -- Recruitment and retention of scholars -- Research institutions and experiments -- The ruler and the scientists -- Supporting science and scholarship: Convenient political business - up to a point -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 How (not?) to Talk to Monarchs: The Case of the Epicurean Diogenes of Seleucia -- The Diogenes Anecdote -- The Epicurean philosopher at court -- Talking to kings -- Priest of Virtue -- The lysiodos -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 A Disillusioned Intellectual: Timagenes of Alexandria -- The local response to the Roman conquest of Egypt -- Didymus Chalcenterus and Timagenes: Augustus' intelligentsia? -- A bonfire of books -- Echoes of Timagenes? -- Timagenes in the papyri -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Reassessing Ovid's Image of Tiberius and his Principate -- Introduction -- Tiberius, the reluctant princeps -- Tiberius' other appearances in the Fasti and Epistulae ex Ponto -- Further context: Tiberian decrees -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Entangled Imperial Identities: Citizen, Subject, and Mentor in Plutarch's Aratus -- Introduction: Citizen, subject and mentor -- Features of the Aratus: literary and historical context -- Aratus and Philip -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 The Misleading Representation of Dion as Philosopher-General in Plutarch's Life -- The main sources for Dion's life -- Historical outline -- Dion, Plato and Philosophy -- Dion's career and military ability -- Dion's personal ambitions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Magister Domino: Intellectual and Pedagogical Power in Fronto's Correspondence -- Notes. Bibliography -- 8 Marcus Aurelius, Greek Poets, and Greek Sophists: Friends or Foes? -- Poets -- Sophists -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Entertainers, Persuaders, Adversaries: Interactions of Sophists and Rulers in Philostratus' Lives of Sophists -- Sophists as entertainers and enchanters: The (deceitful) charm of sophistic logos -- Persuaders: Sophists and political engagement -- Dangerous encounters: The sophist as adversary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Lucian on Roman Officials -- Lucian - Greek nationalist, social revolutionary, playful sophist, or what? -- Conspicuous absences: Roman officials in The Hirelings in Great Houses, Nigrinus, and How to write history -- Intermittent presences: Roman officials in the Demonax, On the Death of Peregrinus, and Alexander -- Lucian - a Roman official himself? Apology and Defense for a slip of the tongue -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 11 How to Flatter an Imperial Mistress: The Image of Panthea in Lucian's Imagines -- Introduction -- Artists and artworks in Lucian's Imagines -- Taste and eclecticism -- Lucian's Imagines: an έκφρασις or something more devious? -- Notes -- 12 Speaking Truth to Power: Julian, the Cynics, and the Ethiopian Gymnosophists of Heliodorus -- Introduction -- Julian and the Cynics -- Hydaspes and the gymnosophists in Heliodorus' Aethiopica -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781351379809 |
