Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece - Memory, Monuments, Texts

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Strazdins writes clearly and persuasively, and supports her argument with judicious use of 83 photos and drawings. Scholars and students of the Second Sophistic will profit much from this work.

Product details

• Authors: Estelle Strazdins, Estelle (Lecturer in Classics Strazdins
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2023
• EAN: 9780192866103
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286610-3
• No. of pages: 394
• Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation; Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory