Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece - Estelle Strazdins

Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece

Memory, Monuments, Texts
Buch | Hardcover
394 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286610-3 (ISBN)
146,50 inkl. MwSt
Strazdins uses literature, inscriptions, and art to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. She establishes that imperial Greek temporality was more complex than previously allowed by detailing how cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future.
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. This wide-ranging work challenges conventional thinking about the temporal positioning of imperial Greece and the so-called 'Second Sophistic', which holds that it was obsessed above all with the Classical past. Instead, the volume establishes that imperial Greek temporality was far more complex than scholarship has previously allowed by detailing how contemporary cultural output used the past to position itself within tradition but was crafted to speak to the future. At the same time, the book emphasizes the value of interdisciplinary analysis in any explication of elite culture in Roman Greece, since abundant extant evidence reveals its purveyors were often responsible for the production of both literature and material culture. Strazdins shows how these two modes of cultural production in the hands of elites, such as Herodes Atticus, Arrian, Aelius Aristides, Lucian, Dio Chrysostom, Polemon, Pausanias, and Philostratus, exhibit a shared rhetoric oriented towards posterity and informed by a heightened awareness of the fragility of cultural and personal memory over large spans of time. The book thus provides a sophisticated analysis of the tensions, anxieties, and opportunities that attend the fashioning of commemorative strategies against the background of the 'Second Sophistic' and the Roman empire, and details the consequences of embroilment with futurity on our understanding of the cultural and political concerns of elite imperial Greeks.

Estelle Strazdins is Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University. Her research revolves around Greek literature and material culture of the Roman Imperial period and early European travellers to Ottoman lands. Prior to coming to ANU, she was Lecturer in Greek History at the University of Queensland, a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, a Research Fellow at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, and completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
1: The Future and the 'Second Sophistic'
Part I: Glorious Past, Tense Present, Pending Future
2: Back to the Future
3: Monuments and Rhetorical Materiality
Part II: Textual Monuments and Monumental Texts
4: The Epitaphic Habit
5: Commemoration Embodied
Part III: Controlling the Future?
6: The King of Athens
7: The Politics of Posterity

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
Zusatzinfo 83 photographs and other half tones
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 198 x 253 mm
Gewicht 1024 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-286610-9 / 0192866109
ISBN-13 978-0-19-286610-3 / 9780192866103
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