Articulating Resistance Under the Roman Empire Jolowicz Daniel
Articulating Resistance Under the Roman Empire Jolowicz Daniel This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire…
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Articulating Resistance Under the Roman Empire Jolowicz Daniel
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. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the world of visual and material culture. 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.
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
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