Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108718851)

This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the world of visual and material culture. Within the volume a distinguished group of scholars explores topics such as the affirmation of identity via language choice in epigraphy; the use of genre (dialogue, declamation, biography, the novel) to express resistant positions; identity negotiation in the scintillating and often satirical Greek essays of Lucian; and the place of religion in resisting hegemonic power.

Author: Daniel Jolowicz
ISBN-10: 110871885X
ISBN-13: 9781108718851
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2025
Pages: 313
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d