Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman antiquity

Weitere Verfasser: Bosman, Philip,
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (242 pages)
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman antiquity. (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781138505094
Online Zugang: Available online for registrated users of FID
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Enlightened king or pragmatic rulers? : Ptolemaic patronage of scholarship and sciences in context / Francesca Schironi
  • How (not?) to talk to monarchs: The case of the Epicurean Diogenes of Seleucia / Clive Chandler
  • A disillusioned intellectual : Timagenes of Alexandria / Livia Capponi
  • Reassessing Ovid's image of Tiberius and his principate / Sanjaya Thakur
  • Entangled imperial identities : Citizen, subject, and mentor in Plutarch's Aratus / Mallory Monaco Caterine
  • The misleading representations of Dion as philosopher-general in Plutarch's life / Richard Evans
  • Magister Domino : intellectual and pedagogical power in Fronto's correspondence / Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael
  • Marcus Aurelius, Greek poets, and Greek Sophists : friends or foes? / Ewen Bowie
  • Entertainers, persuaders, adversaries : interactions of Sophists and rulers in Philostratus' lives of Sophists / Katarzyna Jazdzewska
  • Lucian on Roman officials / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
  • How to flatter an imperial mistress: The image of Panthea in Lucian's imagines / Balbina Bäbler
  • Speaking truth to power : Julian, the cynics, and the Ethiopian gymnosophists of Heliodorus / John Hilton.