Explores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of genre, the negotiation of identity, and religion.
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. 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. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the world of visual and material culture. 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 power.
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Explores the diverse forms of elite resistance to and in the Roman Empire, often in subtle and silent ways.
Introduction: Articulating resistance Daniel Jolowicz and Ja Elsner;
Part I. Language and Identity:
1. Linguistic resistance to Rome: A
reappraisal of the epigraphic evidence Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair;
Part II. Genres of Literary Resistance:
2. Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and
late antique philosophical dialogues Dawn LaValle Norman;
3. Greek
declamation and the art of resistance Will Guast;
4. Plutarch's parallelism
and resistance Eran Almagor;
5. A glitch in the matrix: Aphrodisias, Rome and
imperial Greek fiction Daniel Jolowicz; Part III. Identity Negotiation:
6.
Portraying power: Lucian's imagines and Marcus Aurelius' meditations Nicolņ
D'Alconzo;
7. Satire and the polis in Lucian's Timon or The Misanthrope
Aneurin Ellis-Evans; Part IV. Religion and Resistance:
8. Anti-Roman Sibyl(s)
Helen Van Noorden;
9. Traditions of resistance in Greco-Egyptian narratives
Ian Rutherford;
10. Julian the emperor and the reaction against Christianity:
A case study of resistance from the top Lea Niccolai; Epilogue: Resisting
resistance Simon Goldhill.
Daniel Jolowicz is a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is the author of Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels (2021). Ja Elsner is a Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous works including Art and the Roman Viewer (Cambridge, 1995), Pilgrimage Past and Present (jointly with Simon Coleman) (1995), Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (2007), The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450 (2nd edition, 2018) and Eurocentric and Beyond: Art History, the Global Turn and the Possibilities of Comparison (2022).
