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This volume deals with the interaction between public intellectuals of the late Hellenistic and Roman era, and the powerful individuals with whom they came into contact. How did they negotiate power and its abuses? How did they manage to retain a critical distance from the people they depended upon for their liveli-hood, and even their very existence? These figures include a broad range of prose and poetry authors, dramatists, historians and biographers, philosophers, rhetoricians, religious and other figures of public status. The contributors to the volume consider how such individuals positioned themselves within existing power matrices, and what the approaches and mechanisms were by means of which they negotiated such matrices, whether in the form of opposition, compromise or advocacy. Apart from cutting-edge scholarship on the figures from antiquity investigated, the volume aims to address issues of pertinence in the current political climate, with its manipulation of popular media, and with the increasing interference in the affairs of institutions of higher learning funded from public coffers.
Sommario
List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1: Enlightened King or Pragmatic Rulers? Ptolemaic Patronage of Scholarship and Sciences in Context – Francesca Schironi; Chapter 2: How (not?) to Talk to Monarchs: The Case of the Epicurean Diogenes of Seleucia – Clive Chandler; Chapter 3: A Disillusioned Intellectual: Timagenes of Alexandria – Livia Capponi; Chapter 4: Reassessing Ovid’s Image of Tiberius and his Principate – Sanjaya Thakur; Chapter 5: Entangled Imperial Identities: Citizen, Subject, and Mentor in Plutarch’s Aratus – Mallory Monaco Caterine; Chapter 6: The Misleading Representations of Dion as Philosopher-General in Plutarch’s Life – Richard Evans; Chapter 7: Magister Domino: Intellectual and Pedagogical Power in Fronto’s Correspondence – Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael; Chapter 8: Marcus Aurelius, Greek Poets, and Greek Sophists: Friends or Foes? – Ewen Bowie; Chapter 9: Entertainers, Persuaders, Adversaries: Interactions of Sophists and Rulers in Philostratus’ Lives of Sophists – Katarzyna Jażdżewska; Chapter 10: Lucian on Roman Officials – Heinz-Günther Nesselrath; Chapter 11: How to Flatter an Imperial Mistress: The Image of Panthea in Lucian’s Imagines – Balbina Bäbler; Chapter 12: Speaking Truth to Power: Julian, the Cynics, and the Ethiopian Gymnosophists of Heliodorus – John Hilton; Index
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Philip R. Bosman (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) specialises in intellectual history, Hellenistic philosophy and Greek literature of the imperial age. He has published articles and edited volumes on a range of topics related to Greco-Roman antiquity. His monograph Conscience in Philo and Paul: A Conceptual History of the Synoida Word Group was published in 2003.
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This volume deals with the interaction between public intellectuals of the late Hellenistic and Roman era, and the powerful individuals with whom they came into contact.
