Intellectual and Empire in Greco-Roman Antiquity / edited by Philip R. Bosman.
This volume deals with the interaction between public intellectuals of the late Hellenistic and Roman era, and the powerful individuals with whom they came into contact. How did they negotiate power and its abuses? How did they manage to retain a critical distance from the people they depended upon...
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Table of Contents:
- Enlightened king or pragmatic rulers? : Ptolemaic patronage of scholarship and sciences in context / Francesca Schironi
- How (not?) to talk to monarchs: The case of the Epicurean Diogenes of Seleucia / Clive Chandler
- A disillusioned intellectual : Timagenes of Alexandria / Livia Capponi
- Reassessing Ovid's image of Tiberius and his principate / Sanjaya Thakur
- Entangled imperial identities : Citizen, subject, and mentor in Plutarch's Aratus / Mallory Monaco Caterine
- The misleading representations of Dion as philosopher-general in Plutarch's life / Richard Evans
- Magister Domino : intellectual and pedagogical power in Fronto's correspondence / Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael
- Marcus Aurelius, Greek poets, and Greek Sophists : friends or foes? / Ewen Bowie
- Entertainers, persuaders, adversaries : interactions of Sophists and rulers in Philostratus' lives of Sophists / Katarzyna Jazdzewska
- Lucian on Roman officials / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
- How to flatter an imperial mistress: The image of Panthea in Lucian's imagines / Balbina Bäbler
- Speaking truth to power : Julian, the cynics, and the Ethiopian gymnosophists of Heliodorus / John Hilton.
- Conspicuous absences: Roman officials in The Hirelings in Great Houses, Nigrinus, and How to write historyIntermittent presences: Roman officials in the Demonax, On the Death of Peregrinus, and Alexander; Lucian
- a Roman official himselfApology and Defense for a slip of the tongue; Conclusions; Notes; 11 How to Flatter an Imperial Mistress: The Image of Panthea in Lucian's Imagines; Introduction; Artists and artworks in Lucian's Imagines; Taste and eclecticism; Lucian's Imagines: an έκφρασις or something more devious; Notes.