Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198912040
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 255x181x32 mm
- Weight 1184 g
- Language English 681
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Short description:
The first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in Turkey) from the late third century BC to the fourth century AD across multiple cultural spheres (art and architecture, history and politics, literature and poetry, philosophy and thought, scholarship and rhetoric).
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This interdisciplinary volume provides the first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon. It surveys the rich and diverse interactions between these two cities from the late third century BCE to the fourth century CE, ranging across multiple cultural spheres (including art and architecture, history and politics, literature and poetry, philosophy and thought, scholarship and rhetoric). The book reassesses the nature, scope, and extent of Pergamon and Rome's so-called 'special relationship', shedding light on much-discussed problems, offering new evidence for their cultural interactions, and questioning long-established assumptions.
One recurrent theme concerns the limitations of our knowledge: extant evidence is limited and often skewed by later Roman sources, and it is frequently very difficult to identify and define cultural features that are distinctively 'Pergamene'. Nevertheless, there was certainly an important relationship between these two cities, which this volume seeks to map out with greater nuance, precision, and breadth, setting it within a wider interconnected Hellenistic context. As a whole, the volume reflects on the scholarly reception of Pergamon, uncovering how and when a certain view of a cohesive 'Pergamene culture' took shape among modern scholarship and what factors, prejudices, and assumptions undergirded its creation. It also challenges and rethinks the frameworks that shape our view of cultural activity in the Hellenistic world, emphasizing the porousness of cultural movements across political boundaries. This book will be of interest not only to scholars of Roman culture, but also to those interested in the impact of Hellenistic culture on Rome more generally and to scholars engaged with theories and models of cultural influence.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Pergamon and Rome: A 'Special Relationship'?
History, Politics, and Identity
The Cultural Practices of Italians in Pergamon, from 133
Politicized Theatre and Political Theatrics at Pergamon and Rome
Galen's Pergamene Identity
Scholarship and Rhetoric
Grammar, Philology, and Literary Criticism between Pergamon and Rome
The Chronica of Apollodorus of Athens between Pergamon and Rome
Inter omnes Asiae civitates Pergamum clarius: Elements of Possible Pergamene Influence on Roman Oratory and Rhetoric in the Middle and Late Republic
LITERATURE
Pergamene Influences in Mid-Republican Roman Literature?
From Colophon to Rome: Pergamene Nicander, Latin Poetry, and Ovid's Ceyx and Alcyone
The Flavian Cultural Revolution: Between Pergamon and Alexandria
Philosophy
Philosophy between Pergamon and Rome
The Neoplatonist 'School of Pergamon': Philosophy and Politics in the Fourth Century
Art and Architecture
Temple Architecture in Rome after the Second Punic War and its Relationship with the Architecture of Pergamon and Asia Minor
Sculpture in Pergamon and in Rome
Celtomachies in Italy and the Influence of the Pergamene Gauls
Pergamon and the Ara Pacis Augustae
Surgical Anatomy of the Lumbar Plexus
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