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Tables of Contents for Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
40
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire
1
16
Literature, Power, and Culture
17
3
A Geography of the Imagination
20
6
Imitation and Identity
26
3
The Politics of Imitation
29
12
PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF IMITATION
1. Repetition: The Crisis of Posterity
41
49
A Secondary Society
41
5
Repetition and Mimesis
46
1
Rescuing Mimesis
47
10
Sublime Mimesis
57
14
Art and Artifice
71
17
Conclusion: From 'Past and Present' to 'Prior and Posterior'
88
2
2. Education: Strategies of Self-Making
90
43
Strategies of Self-Making
91
5
Paideia and Social Status
96
13
Paideia and Gender
109
7
Paideia and Hellenism
116
13
Pedagogy, Identity, Power
129
4
PART TWO: GREECE AND ROME
3. Rome Uncivilized: Exile and the Kingdom
133
48
Exile and the Kingdom
134
7
Musonius Rufus, the 'Roman' 'Socrates'
141
15
Dio Chrysostom: Exile and Sophistry
156
11
Favorinus: Exile and Literary Alienation
167
11
Conclusion
178
3
4. Civilizing Rome: Greek Pedagogy and the Roman Emperor
181
66
Staging Philosophy: The Dionic Man
183
3
The Kingship orations: Performance and/of Power
186
4
Staging the Self: Sophistry in Motion
190
10
Greek Pedagogy and Roman Rule
200
16
Marcus Aurelius: Internalized Pedagogy
216
9
Dio and Philostratus
225
19
Conclusion: On Kingship
244
3
5. Satirizing Rome: Lucian
247
55
Satire and Satirical Identity
248
6
Rome, City of Spectacles
254
3
The Satirical Show
257
8
Nigrinus: Yearning for Philosophy
265
14
The Wrongs of Passage: On salaried posts
279
14
Conclusion
293
2
Conclusion
295
7
Appendices:
1. Translation of Favorinus, On Exile (P.Vat. II)
302
23
2. The Performative Context of Dio's Kingship orations
325
3
References
328
38
Index Locorum
366
5
Index of Greek Words
371
1
General Index
372