Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation) 9780192866103, 0192866109
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to
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Table of contents :
Cover
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts
Copyright
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ABBREVIATIONS
A NOTE ON NAMES
ONE. The Future and the ‘Second Sophistic’
PART I. Glorious Past, Tense Present, Pending Future
TWO. Back to the Future
2.1 POSTCLASSICISM, THE CANON, AND THE FUTURE
2.1.1 Temporality, Sublimity, and Canonicity in On the Sublime
2.1.2 Temporality, Beauty, and Culture in Dio Chrysostom’s Oration 21
2.1.3 Competitive and Passive Imitation in Theory and Practice
2.2 REMAKING SPACE, TIME, AND MEMORY IN ARRIAN’S PERIPLOUS
2.3 NOVELTY AND THE PROBLEM OF AUDIENCE WITH PHILOSTRATOS AND LUCIAN
2.4 CREATING ORIGINAL ARTISTIC SPACE IN AELIUS ARISTEIDES’ SACRED TALES
2.5 CONCLUSION
THREE. Monuments and Rhetorical Materiality
3.1 MATERIAL MEMORIES
3.2 TEXTUAL CURATION OF ARTEFACTUAL MEMORY
3.3 RHETORICAL MATERIALITY
3.4 CONCLUSION
PART II. Textual Monuments and Monumental Texts
FOUR. The Epitaphic Habit
4.1 SPEECH, TEXT, MONUMENT
4.2 AUTHORITY AND DOMINION: BOUNDARIES AND LIMINA
4.2.1 Revising Alexander’s Altars in Philostratos’ In Honour of Apollonios of Tyana
4.2.2 Transposing the Pillars of Herakles in Lucian’s True Stories
4.2.3 Reshaping Spatial Memory with Herodes’ Herms
4.3 ARRIAN, ALEXANDER, AND THE TEXTUAL APPROPRIATION OF MEMORY
4.3.1 The Tomb of Achilles
4.3.2 The Tomb of Kyros
4.4 HERODES ATTIKOS AND THE PHYSICAL APPROPRIATION OF MEMORY
4.5 CONCLUSION
FIVE. Commemoration Embodied
5.1 STATUE HONOURS AND THEIR LIMITATIONS
5.2 AMPLIFICATION: STATUE PROGRAMMES ON MONUMENTS
5.3 IMAGINARY SPACES OF HONOUR
5.4 REPLICATION
5.5 ANIMATION AND WRITING
5.6 CONCLUSION
PART III. Controlling the Future?
SIX. The King of Athens
6.1 THE ISTHMUS OF CORINTH: HERO, KING, TYRANT, GOD?
6.2 SOPHISTIC TYRANNY, IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY
6.3 THE KING OF WORDS
6.4 ROMAN PHILOSOPHER, GREEK TYRANT
6.6 CONCLUSION
SEVEN. The Politics of Posterity
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX LOCORUM
Cover
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts
Copyright
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
ABBREVIATIONS
A NOTE ON NAMES
ONE. The Future and the ‘Second Sophistic’
PART I. Glorious Past, Tense Present, Pending Future
TWO. Back to the Future
2.1 POSTCLASSICISM, THE CANON, AND THE FUTURE
2.1.1 Temporality, Sublimity, and Canonicity in On the Sublime
2.1.2 Temporality, Beauty, and Culture in Dio Chrysostom’s Oration 21
2.1.3 Competitive and Passive Imitation in Theory and Practice
2.2 REMAKING SPACE, TIME, AND MEMORY IN ARRIAN’S PERIPLOUS
2.3 NOVELTY AND THE PROBLEM OF AUDIENCE WITH PHILOSTRATOS AND LUCIAN
2.4 CREATING ORIGINAL ARTISTIC SPACE IN AELIUS ARISTEIDES’ SACRED TALES
2.5 CONCLUSION
THREE. Monuments and Rhetorical Materiality
3.1 MATERIAL MEMORIES
3.2 TEXTUAL CURATION OF ARTEFACTUAL MEMORY
3.3 RHETORICAL MATERIALITY
3.4 CONCLUSION
PART II. Textual Monuments and Monumental Texts
FOUR. The Epitaphic Habit
4.1 SPEECH, TEXT, MONUMENT
4.2 AUTHORITY AND DOMINION: BOUNDARIES AND LIMINA
4.2.1 Revising Alexander’s Altars in Philostratos’ In Honour of Apollonios of Tyana
4.2.2 Transposing the Pillars of Herakles in Lucian’s True Stories
4.2.3 Reshaping Spatial Memory with Herodes’ Herms
4.3 ARRIAN, ALEXANDER, AND THE TEXTUAL APPROPRIATION OF MEMORY
4.3.1 The Tomb of Achilles
4.3.2 The Tomb of Kyros
4.4 HERODES ATTIKOS AND THE PHYSICAL APPROPRIATION OF MEMORY
4.5 CONCLUSION
FIVE. Commemoration Embodied
5.1 STATUE HONOURS AND THEIR LIMITATIONS
5.2 AMPLIFICATION: STATUE PROGRAMMES ON MONUMENTS
5.3 IMAGINARY SPACES OF HONOUR
5.4 REPLICATION
5.5 ANIMATION AND WRITING
5.6 CONCLUSION
PART III. Controlling the Future?
SIX. The King of Athens
6.1 THE ISTHMUS OF CORINTH: HERO, KING, TYRANT, GOD?
6.2 SOPHISTIC TYRANNY, IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY
6.3 THE KING OF WORDS
6.4 ROMAN PHILOSOPHER, GREEK TYRANT
6.6 CONCLUSION
SEVEN. The Politics of Posterity
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX LOCORUM
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