Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

Jason König is a Professor of Classics at the University of St. Andrews. He has published widely on the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire. His books include Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (Cambridge, 2005) and Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (Cambridge, 2012). Nicolas Wiater is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Classics at the University of St. Andrews. He specialises in late Hellenistic and early imperial Greek literature. His publications include The Ideology of Classicism: Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus (2011) and, with T. A. Schmitz, The Struggle for Identity. Greeks and their Past in the First Century BCE (2011).

Introduction Jason König and Nicolas Wiater; 1. The empire becomes a body: power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater; 2. Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps: geography and empire in the Garland of Philip Thomas A. Schmitz; 3. Sailing the sea, sailing an image: periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines Mario Baumann; 4. Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature: landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus Jason König; 5. Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism: Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis Benjamin Gray; 6. The Wrath of the Sibyl: Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 Emma Greensmith; 7. Imagining belonging: the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome Joy Connolly; 8. Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography Myrto Hatzimichali; 9. Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities': Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history Felix K. Maier; 10. 'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim; 11. Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio: rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic Casper C. de Jonge; 12. Envoi: To live in Hellenistic times Simon Goldhill.