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During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the prevailing focus of scholarship on Roman Greece over the past fifty years. Often overlooked are the period’s historians, who spurned sophistic oral performance in favor of written accounts. One such author is Arrian of Nicomedia. Daniel W. Leon examines the works of Arrian to show how the era's historians responded to their sophistic peers’ claims of authority and played a crucial role in theorizing the past at a time when knowledge of history was central to defining Greek cultural identity. Best known for his history of Alexander the Great, Arrian articulated a methodical approach to the study of the past and a notion of historical progress that established a continuous line of human activity leading to his present and imparting moral and political lessons. Using Arrian as a case study in Greek historiography, Leon demonstrates how the genre functioned during the Imperial Period and what it brings to the study of the Roman world in the second century.

Arrian. --- Arrian --- Influence. --- Greece --- Rome --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- Historiography, historian, Classic Athens, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, ancient roman history, second sophistic, Second sophists, greek historiography, greek history.

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Cleopatra-a brave, astute, and charming woman who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into battle, eliminated siblings to consolidate her power, and held off the threat of Imperial Rome to protect her country as long as she could-continues to fascinate centuries after she ruled Egypt. These wide-ranging essays explore such topics as Cleopatra's controversial trip to Rome, her suicide by snake bite, and the afterlife of her love potions. They view Cleopatra from the Egyptian perspective, and examine the reception in Rome of Egyptian culture, especially of its religion and architecture. They discuss films about her, and consider what inspired Egyptomania in early modern art. Together, these essays illuminate Cleopatra's legacy and illustrate how it has been used and reused through the centuries.

Queens --- Egypt, Ancient. --- Art, Ancient --- Egypt --- Architecture, Ancient --- Egypt. --- Religion. --- Cleopatra, --- Rome --- History --- Kings and rulers --- ancient egypt religion. --- ancient egypt. --- ancient egyptian architecture. --- ancient egyptian rulers. --- ancient egyptian women. --- ancient history. --- ancient pharaoh. --- ancient roman politics. --- ancient rome. --- classical studies. --- cleopatra afterlife. --- cleopatra and egypt. --- cleopatra and rome. --- cleopatra love potions. --- cleopatra vii. --- early modern art. --- egyptian culture. --- egyptian religion. --- egyptomania. --- historic women figures. --- imperial rome. --- life of cleopatra. --- political history. --- roman history. --- rome and egypt. --- women in history.

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Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil's Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem's idyllic, and idealized, portrait of rustic life and agriculture with changing attitudes toward the countryside in late Republican and early Imperial Rome. He argues that what has been seen as a straightforward poem about agriculture is in fact an enchanting work of fantasy that elevated, and sometimes whitewashed, the realities of country life. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Thibodeau shows how Vergil's poem reshaped agrarian ideals in its own time, and how it influenced Roman poets, philosophers, agronomists, and orators. Playing the Farmer brings a fresh perspective to a work that was praised by Dryden as "the best poem by the best poet."

Agriculture in literature. --- Allusions. --- Didactic poetry, Latin --- Epic poetry, Classical --- History and criticism. --- Virgile, --- Rome --- In literature. --- Quotation --- Terms and phrases --- Virgil. --- aeneid. --- ancient and classic poetry. --- ancient orators. --- ancient roman poets. --- ancient rome literature. --- ancient rome poems. --- bucolic stories. --- classical poems. --- discussion books. --- epic poems. --- epic poetry. --- epics and sagas. --- epics. --- european literature. --- farm life. --- high school english class. --- homer. --- illiad. --- imperial rome. --- latin poems. --- latin translations. --- literary classics. --- literary criticism. --- literary. --- literature majors. --- literature professors. --- odyssey. --- poets. --- roman agronomists. --- roman orators. --- roman philosophers. --- roman poets.

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"Sacred Founders argues that from the time of Augustus through early Byzantium, a discourse of imperial founding helped articulate and legitimate imperial authority. Artwork, literature, imperial honors, and the built environment comprised the statements in this multi-authored, empire-wide discourse. These statements were bound by the idea that imperial men and women were sacred founders of the land, mirror images of the empire's divine founders. By establishing a new capital for the Roman Empire, Constantine and his formidable mother, Helena, initiated its Christian transformation. Over time this transformation empowered imperial women, transformed the cult of the Virgin Mary, fueled contests between church and state, and provoked an arresting synthesis of imperial and Christian art. With balanced analysis, Angelova presents a fresh argument about the symbolic logic of Roman rule and uncovers forgotten legacies that profoundly shaped the Christian era"--Provided by publisher.

Empresses --- Imperialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Monarchy --- Queens --- Religious life. --- Social aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Rome --- History --- ancient roman empire. --- ancient rome. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- art history. --- artwork. --- augustus. --- authority. --- build environment. --- christian art. --- christian transformation. --- christianity. --- church and state. --- constantine. --- divine founders. --- early byzantium empire. --- early christian art. --- emperor augustus. --- emperor constantine. --- emperor. --- female imperial power. --- history. --- imperial art. --- imperial honors. --- literature. --- medieval world. --- myth of origins. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- roman empire. --- sacred founders. --- virgin mary.

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Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship--historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics--the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.

Emperors --- Augustus, --- Octavius Caesar, --- Gaius Octavius, --- Octavius, Gaius, --- Octavianus, --- Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar, --- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, --- Octavian, --- Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, --- T︠S︡ezarʹ Oktavian Avgust, --- Oktavian-Avgust, T︠S︡ezarʹ, --- Avgust, T︠S︡ezarʹ Oktavian, --- Octavianus Augustus, --- Augusto, --- Cesarz August, --- Ogusṭus, --- Augustus Caesar, --- Gaius Octavius Thurinus, --- Octavio Augusto, --- Cayo Octavio Turino, --- Thurinus, Gaius Octavius, --- Turino, Cayo Octavio, --- אוגוסטוס --- Rome --- History --- Emperors - Rome - Biography --- Historiography. --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- age of socrates. --- ancient history. --- ancient roman history. --- athenian politics. --- augustan age. --- augustan monarchy. --- augustan scholarship. --- classical history. --- classics studies. --- classics. --- european history. --- greco roman studies. --- imperial rome. --- italian history. --- julius caesar. --- pax romana. --- roman art. --- roman emperors. --- roman empire. --- roman historiography. --- roman military. --- roman poetry. --- roman politics. --- roman principate. --- roman religion. --- roman republic. --- roman revolution. --- roman social history. --- roman studies. --- saint augustus. --- tiberius. --- world history.