Surveys the Severan period's many developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, archaeology and culture.
The Roman Empire during the reigns of Septimius Severus and his successors (AD 193-225) enjoyed a remarkably rich and dynamic cultural life. It saw the consolidation of the movement known as the second sophistic, which had flourished during the second century and promoted the investigation and reassessment of classical Greek culture. It also witnessed the emergence of Christianity on its own terms, in Greek and in Latin, as a major force extending its influence across literature, philosophy, theology, art and even architecture. This volume offers the first wide-ranging and authoritative survey of the culture of this fascinating period when the background of Rome's rulers was for the first time non-Italian. Leading scholars discuss general trends and specific instances, together producing a vibrant picture of an extraordinary period of cultural innovation rooted in ancient tradition.
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"The twenty-six contributions...are of uniformly high quality." --BMCR
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This book surveys the Severan period's many developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, archaeology and culture.
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| Letter of Philostratus to Longinus |
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| Preface and Bibliography of Ewen Bowie |
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| Introduction |
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PART I LITERATURE AND CULTURE |
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Prose literature and the Severan dynasty |
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Severan historiography: evidence, patterns, and arguments |
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The worlds of Nestor the poet |
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Sex lives of the sophists: epigrams by Philostratus and Fronto |
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The Cynegetica attributed to Oppian |
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Greek athletics in the Severan period: literary views |
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Heracles, Prometheus, and the play of genres in [ Lucian]'s Amores |
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Allegory and narrative in Heliodorus |
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Polyphony or Babel? Hosidius Geta's Medea and the poetics of the cento |
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Unfair to Caecilius? Ciceronian dialogue techniques in Minucius Felix |
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190 | (11) |
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PART II ART AND ARCHITECTURE |
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Art at the crossroads? Themes and styles in Severan art |
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Landscape, transformation, and divine epiphany |
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Urban development in the Severan empire |
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Metaphor and identity in Severan architecture: the Septizodium at Rome between `reality' and `fantasy' |
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Visibility and viewing on the Severan Marble Plan |
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368 | (17) |
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Septimius Severus: the Augustan emperor |
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PART III RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY |
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Almsgiving for the pure of heart: continuity and change in early Christian teaching |
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Tertullian on flesh, spirit, and wives |
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Sophists and Rabbis: Jews and their past in the Severan age |
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Trouble in Snake-Town: interpreting an oracle from Hierapolis-Pamukkale |
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Magic in the Severan period |
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Philosophy, scholarship, and the world of learning in the Severan period |
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Human autonomy and divine revelation in Origen |
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Socrates under the Severans |
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Simon Swain is Professor of Classics at the University of Warwick. His recent publications include editing Bilingualism in Ancient Society (2002) (with J. N. Adams and M. Jase), Approaching Late Antiquity (2004) and Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007). Stephen Harrison is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College. His numerous publications include A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (1991), Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (2000), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (2007) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to Horace (2007). Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has edited and co-edited numerous volumes and is the author of Art and the Roman Viewer (1995), Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire (1998) and Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (2007).
