- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1996. Explores the rise of nationalism among the Greeks at the time of the Roman empire, and their claims to cultural superiority over the Romans.
Full Description
Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater now than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as a time of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studies in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.
