Book contents
- Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Empire Becomes a Body
- Chapter 2 Pyrenaean Mountains and Deep-Valleyed Alps
- Chapter 3 Sailing the Sea, Sailing an Image
- Chapter 4 Ecocritical Readings in Late Hellenistic Literature
- Chapter 5 Civic and Counter-Civic Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter 6 The Wrath of the Sibyl
- Chapter 7 Imagining Belonging
- Chapter 8 Philosophical Self-Definition in Strabo’s Geography
- Chapter 9 Narrating ‘the Swarm of Possibilities’
- Chapter 10 ‘Asianist’ Style in Hellenistic Oratory and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists
- Chapter 11 Greek Reading Lists from Dionysius to Dio
- Chapter 12 Envoi
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2022
Book contents
- Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figure
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Empire Becomes a Body
- Chapter 2 Pyrenaean Mountains and Deep-Valleyed Alps
- Chapter 3 Sailing the Sea, Sailing an Image
- Chapter 4 Ecocritical Readings in Late Hellenistic Literature
- Chapter 5 Civic and Counter-Civic Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter 6 The Wrath of the Sibyl
- Chapter 7 Imagining Belonging
- Chapter 8 Philosophical Self-Definition in Strabo’s Geography
- Chapter 9 Narrating ‘the Swarm of Possibilities’
- Chapter 10 ‘Asianist’ Style in Hellenistic Oratory and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists
- Chapter 11 Greek Reading Lists from Dionysius to Dio
- Chapter 12 Envoi
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Summary
This chapter maps out some key themes and questions for the volume as a whole. Studies of late Hellenistic Greek literature have tended to focus narrowly on individual texts and authors. The goal of this volume is to generate a set of new readings that do justice to the intertextual richness of the writings of this period. The introduction also aims to move beyond rigid accounts of the start and end-points of the ‘Hellenistic period', bringing late Hellenistic literature into dialogue with its later imperial equivalents in ways which draw attention to both the similarities and the differences between them.
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- Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue , pp. 1 - 35Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022