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Hellenism and Empire : Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 - Simon Swain

Hellenism and Empire

Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250

By: Simon Swain

Paperback | 9 April 1998

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Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater then than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as a time of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studied in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.
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`Swain has plotted a cautious and helpful path through the lexical maze, while never losing sight of the larger view.' Times Literary Supplement `This volume is a scholarly discussion of the attitudes of Greek intellectuals in the Roman Empire...From this meticulous examination of second sophistic literati Swain draws two broad conclusions that challenge traditional opinion...This book is a must for anyone interested in the evolution of Greek culture and the second sophistic.' Richard M. Berhold, History.

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