Late Hellenistic Greek literature in dialogue
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Late Hellenistic Greek literature in dialogue
（Greek culture in the Roman world）
Cambridge University Press, 2023, c2022
- : pbk
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Most of the papers in this volume derive from a confrence entitled Rethinking late Hellenistic literature and the Second Sophistic, held at the School of Classics, University of St. Andrews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-402) and indexes
Contents of Works
- Introduction / Jason König, Nicolas Wiater
- The empire becomes a body : power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories / Nicolas Wiater
- Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps : geography and empire in the Garland of Philip / Thomas A. Schmitz
- Sailing the sea, sailing an image : periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines / Mario Baumann
- Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature : landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus / Jason König
- Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism : Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis / Benjamin Gray
- The wrath of the Sibyl : Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 / Emma Greensmith
- Imagining belonging : the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome / Joy Connolly
- Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography / Myrto Hatzimichali
- Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities' : Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history / Felix K. Maier
- 'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists / Lawrence Kim
- Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio : rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic / Casper C. de Jonge
- Envoi : to live in Hellenistic times / Simon Goldhill
