The Greek World" in the Perception of Latin Intellectuals

2015

Denmark (Odense) in , in collaboration with the University of St Andrews, and its mainly British and Danish contributors include several recognised specialists in imperial Greek literature and several well-known Romanists who focus mainly on Latin literature. The literary subject matter addressed is thus disparate, including imperial prose authors from Josephus and Luke-Acts via Tacitus and Pliny to Herodian and Ulpian. It remains thematically coherent, however, though the nature of that theme takes some explanation. The first part of the title is difficult to parse, and one could be forgiven for supposing it was devoted to the muchdiscussed question of 'what Greeks thought of Roman rule'. While that question is certainly present in many of the essays, it does not really take in the volume's overall theme, which has rather more to do with the 'Double Vision' subtitle. It might inelegantly be phrased as 'how the "Greek-Roman" opposition and similar binaries function in literary accounts of Roman politics from the second and third centuries CE'. This breadth increases the interested readership, but also has the virtue of bringing together topics that have a surprising amount in common, but are not generally seen between the same two covers, and benefit from that juxtaposition. Given the generally high quality of the individual articles, the volume is thus an important contribution to the study of identity politics in the literature of the high empire, and scholars of Latin and imperial Greek literature alike will benefit. The 'Double Vision' subtitle also suggests the key methodological issue that the book as a whole addresses with general but not uniform success in the individual articles. In current scholarship, the Greek-Roman binary is not something one can take for granted. These labels can at times refer to juridical status, geographical origin, linguistic preference, or a whole series of less concrete ideas lumped under 'cultural identity'. They can thus be defined in relation to all sorts of other forms of local, religious, and gender identities, to name but a few. When we call someone a 'Roman' or a 'Greek', we do not always mean the same thing as one another, especially when we refer to T lxxiv Adam Kemezis

2013

Recull de ponencies presentades a la International Conference Homo Romanus Graeca Oratione, celebrada a la Universitat de Barcelona el marc de 2009 / Edicio: Francesca Mestre i Pilar Gomez

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The article explores the impact of Byzantines on Istrian Humanism and Renaissance. In the introduction author describes the alienation of the territories which used to be Eastern and Western part of the Roman Empire and, congruently, the fate of the classical (particularly Greek) heritage in the Dark and Middle Ages in those territories. This is followed by a description of the historical events that led to rapprochement of the East and West, with particular emphasis on the Byzantine exodus to Italy. The author then provides a methodological framework by analyzing the main aspects of „rediscovering” Greek cultural heritage and the influence of the Byzantine immigrants on them. The author than turns to Istria, providing, first, a short summary of Istrian contacts with the Greek cultural heritage throughout history and then the settlement of the Byzantines in Istria. The main part of the article follows, containing a detailed analysis of the described elements of „rediscovering” Greek...

Dialog und Dialogizität. Interdisziplinär, interkulturell, international., 2017

It is well known that the Western Culture as we know it today pays a big debt to the encounter of two among the biggest civilizations of the antiquity: the Greeks and the Romans. Since the cultural roots of our present European world are to be found in the Greek and Roman cultures, it could be useful to determine to what extent these cultures were related between each other and how they interacted to create the so-called Classical Culture that has proven to be so fundamental for our common cultural development. The relationship between the Greeks and the Romans began officially with the Battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 BCE, after which the roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus proclaimed the freedom of the Greek cities from the Macedonian dominance, and lasted for other two centuries before the definitive conquest of the Greek mainland by the Romans with the creation of the Province of Achaia in 27 BCE under the rule of the emperor Augustus. During these centuries was established a continuous contact and interchange of people and ideas that made possible the creation of a fruitful and durable cultural dialogue, the main topic of this paper. We will analyze the meaning of the words Hellenization and Romanization and focus the effects of the reciprocal influences, particularly their literary aspects.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019