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Tim Whitmarsh
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Aitia, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2020)
The boukolos or ‘cowherd’ is a familiar feature on the landscape of Roman Greek imaginative literature, but whereas in earlier texts he is a fundamentally benign figure, in imperial culture he usually plays an aggressive, threatening role, partic
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Tim Whitmarsh, Stuart Thomson
The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish,
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Tim Whitmarsh
The'Second Sophistic'traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization agai
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Tim Whitmarsh
The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the roman
Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his pe
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Jason König, Tim Whitmarsh
The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing i
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Tim Whitmarsh
At the end of Book 4 the Delphians, encouraged by the tricky priest Calasiris to arrange an expedition in pursuit of Charicleia and her alleged abductor Theagenes, muster for war—an episode that turns out to be inconsequential. This chapter reads t
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Tim Whitmarsh
This chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the aims of the volume; it also surveys trends in Heliodorean scholarship. Scholarship has over the last forty years focused on Heliodorus’ sophistication in terms of Heliodorus’ handling o
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Tim Whitmarsh
This chapter represents the first of this volume’s two attempts at breaking open Heliodorus’ brief, allegedly autobiographical ‘seal’ at the end of the text. Beginning from the ambiguous position of this paratext (is it within or without the
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Tim Whitmarsh
Chapter 17 re-examines On Superstition, compares it with other treatises (especially A Pleasant Life—the non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum), and argues that it is a pointed, public-facing intervention into the civic culture of the early Emp
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