Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy / Edition 1

by Erich S. Gruen

Overview

This book is an examination of the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. Acclaimed historian Erich S. Gruen discusses the introduction of and resistance to new cults, the relationship between Roman political figures and literary artists schooled in Greek, and the reaction to Hellenic philosophy and rhetoric by the Roman elite. This book contributes new and important information on the place of Greek culture in Roman public life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520204836
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	02/01/1996
Series:	Cincinnati Classical Studies Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Erich S. Gruen is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome and The Last Generation of the Roman Republic. Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy was originally delivered as part of the series of Louise Taft Semple Lectures at the University of Cincinnati.

Table of Contents

Introduction 
I. The Advent of the Magna Mater
II. The Bacchanalian Affair
III. Poetry and Politics: The Beginnings of Latin Literature
IV. Plautus and the Public Stage
V. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Roman Anxieties
Bibliography
Index

 

Editorial Reviews

'...this book is sure to stimulate further debate on the complex subject...'
Emma Dench, Jrnl. Roman St., 1991.
'...livre très soignée et stimulant...les trésors d'érudition, de finesse et d'analyse déployés par E.S. Gruen...'
Jacques Poucet, l'Antiquité classique, 1992.
'...eine wichtige Bereicherung der historischen Forschung zum 2. Jah. v. Chr...'
Linda-Marie Günther, Gnomon, 1994.
'There are very few books I have enjoyed reading, and disagreeing with, so much.'
T.P. Wiseman, Phoenix, 1993.
'G. deserves our gratitude for a collection of preliminary studies which must now be a starting point for any serious discussion of Rome's relationship to Greek culture in the middle and late Republic.'
T.H. Tarver, The Classical Review, 1993.
'Das Buch nimmt unkonventionelle Positionen ein.'
Gerhard Radke, Historische Zeitschrift, 1992.

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