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

    Hellenism and Empire by Swain, Simon;

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

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Clarendon Press
    • Date of Publication 9 April 1998

    • ISBN 9780198152316
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages512 pages
    • Size 217x138x29 mm
    • Weight 702 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Hellenism and Empire explores the rise of nationalism among the Greeks at the time of the Roman Empire, and their claims to cultural superiority over the Romans. It offers a radical reassessment of the traditional picture of Roman political and cultural domination.

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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 now 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 studies in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.

    Swain has plotted a cautious and helpful path through the lexical maze, while never losing sight of the larger view.

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