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Book SynopsisExplores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of genre, the negotiation of identity, and religion.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Articulating resistance Daniel Jolowicz and Jaś Elsner; Part I. Language and Identity: 1. Linguistic resistance to Rome: A reappraisal of the epigraphic evidence Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair; Part II. Genres of Literary Resistance: 2. Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late antique philosophical dialogues Dawn LaValle Norman; 3. Greek declamation and the art of resistance Will Guast; 4. Plutarch's parallelism and resistance Eran Almagor; 5. A glitch in the matrix: Aphrodisias, Rome and imperial Greek fiction Daniel Jolowicz; Part III. Identity Negotiation: 6. Portraying power: Lucian's imagines and Marcus Aurelius' meditations Nicolò D'Alconzo; 7. Satire and the polis in Lucian's Timon or The Misanthrope Aneurin Ellis-Evans; Part IV. Religion and Resistance: 8. Anti-Roman Sibyl(s) Helen Van Noorden; 9. Traditions of resistance in Greco-Egyptian narratives Ian Rutherford; 10. Julian the emperor and the reaction against Christianity: A case study of resistance from the top Lea Niccolai; Epilogue: Resisting resistance Simon Goldhill.
