This is a series of short polemical books on specific topics of
current interest in the study of the Classical world. In "Leisured
Resistance", Michael Dewar examines the varied ways in which
cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their
country estates as retreats in which to compose literature and to
escape from politics, while others adapted that same tradition of
otium ('cultured leisure') to present radical and competing visions
of society and literature alike. The first three chapters
concentrate on material in both prose and verse from the time of
Cicero to the last centuries of the Roman Empire in the west. A
fourth chapter shows the adaptation of this tradition to the
greatly changed world of the barbarian-ruled kingdoms that replaced
direct Roman rule in Gaul in the 5th and 6th centuries, and a brief
epilogue examines the use made of the classical tradition of
villa-poetry by panegyrical poets in Rome in the early 16th
century.
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