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Greeks on Greekness - Viewing the Greek Past Under the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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Greeks on Greekness - Viewing the Greek Past Under the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume, 29
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Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in
revolutionizing themselves..., they anxiously conjure up the
spirits of the past to their service." While the Greek east under
Roman rule was not revolutionary, perhaps, in the sense that Marx
had in mind, it was engaged in creating something that had not
previously existed, in part just through the millennia-long
involvement with its own tradition, which was continually being
remodelled and readapted. It was an age that was intensely
self-conscious about its relation to history, a consciousness that
manifested itself not only in Attic purism and a reverence for
antique literary models but also in ethnic identities, educational
and religious institutions, and political interactions with - and
even among - the Romans. In this volume, which represents a
selection of the papers presented at the colloquium, "Greeks on
Greekness: The Construction and Uses of the Greek Past among Greeks
under the Roman Empire," held at the Center for Hellenic Studies on
25-28 August 2001, seven scholars explore some of the forms that
this preoccupation with the Greek past assumed under Roman rule.
Taken together, the chapters in this volume offer a kaleidoscopic
view of how Greeks under the Roman Empire related to their past,
indicating the multiple ways in which the classical tradition was
problematised, adapted, transformed, and at times rejected. They
thus provide a vivid image of a lived relation to tradition, one
that was inventive rather than conservative and self-conscious
rather than passive. The Greeks under Rome played with their
heritage, as they played at being and not being the Greeks they
continually studied and remembered.
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