Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521030878)

These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating and novel perspective on a crucial era of Western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige. At the same time, Christianity and Judaism were vying for followers against the lures of such an elite cultural life. This book looks at how writers in Greek from all areas of Empire society responded to their political position, to intellectual authority, to religious and social pressures.

Author: Simon Goldhill
ISBN-10: 0521030870
ISBN-13: 9780521030878
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2007
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d