The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE (eBook, PDF)

The Past Present
Redaktion: Kouremenos, Anna

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000540208
• Artikelnr.: 63502627

Autorenporträt

Anna Kouremenos is Macricostas Endowed Teaching Fellow in Hellenic and Modern Greek Studies at Western Connecticut State University, USA, and Lecturer in Ancient History at Quinnipiac University, USA. She has published widely on the history and archaeology of Roman Greece, insularity and identity in the ancient Mediterranean, and the reception of antiquity. Her current research interests lie primarily in Hellenism in the 2nd century CE - with an emphasis on the Hadrianic period - and the reception of Roman Hellenism in later periods.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Collective Historical Nostalgia in 2nd-Century Achaea
Part 1: Social and Literary Approaches to Achaea's Past in the 2nd Century
CE 2. Memory and Identity among the Ephebes of 2nd-Century Achaea 3.
Pausanias Book X: A Detour to the Fringes of "Classical" Greece 4. Hadrian
and the Dramatic Festivals of Achaea 5. The Battle of Chaeronea: Nostalgia
vs. Idealism in 2nd-Century Greek Prose Part 2: The Greek Past in the Roman
Present: Politics and Religion 6. Hadrianos Olympios Panhellenios:
Worshipping Hadrian in Athens 7. Remembering Philopoemen: Achaean Pasts and
Presents of Messene under Rome 8. Politics of the Past: Marcus Aurelius and
Commodus in Achaea 9. Herodes Atticus and the Sanctuaries of Achaea:
Reinterpreting the Roman Present via the Greek Past Part 3: Past and
Present in the Visual Culture of "Old Greece" 10. Remembering Classical
Greece: Hadrianic and Antonine Imperial Portrait Sculpture 11. Between the
Local Past and a Global Phenomenon: Isiaca in 2nd-Century Achaea 12.
Sculpture for "Ordinary" People in 2nd-Century Achaea 13. The Past in the
Round: Roman Provincial Coinage in the Argolid Part 4: Beyond Spatial and
Temporal Boundaries: Hadrian and The Reception of Achaea's Past 14.
Hispania Graeca: Hadrian as a Champion of Hellenic Culture in the West 15.
"The City of Hadrian and not of Theseus": A Cultural History of Hadrian's
Arch 16. Afterword