Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation
Número de páginas: 400 págs. 18.0 x 24.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 09-02-2023
EAN: 9780192866103
ISBN: 978-0-19-286610-3
Precio (sin IVA): 133,72 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 139,07 €
This book 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.