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ARTICULATING RESISTANCE UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empireinwaysthatavoideddirectconfrontationorsimplewarfare.By resistanceismeantarangeofresponsesincluding‘opposition’,‘subver- sion’, ‘antagonism’, ‘dissent’, and ‘criticism’ within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. Although largely focused on literary culture, its implications can be extended to the worldofvisualandmaterialculture.Withinthevolumeadistinguished groupofscholarsexplorestopicssuchastheaffirmationofidentityvia languagechoiceinepigraphy;theuseofgenre(dialogue,declamation, biography,thenovel)toexpressresistantpositions;identitynegotiation inthescintillatingandoftensatiricalGreekessaysofLucian;andthe placeofreligioninresistinghegemonicpower. DanielJolowiczis aFellowofDowningCollege, Cambridge.Heis theauthorofLatinPoetryintheAncientGreekNovels(2021). Jaś Elsner is a Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous works including Art and the RomanViewer(Cambridge,1995),PilgrimagePastandPresent(jointly withSimonColeman)(1995),RomanEyes:VisualityandSubjectivityin ArtandText(2007),TheArtoftheRoman EmpireA.D.100–450(2nd edition,2018)andEurocentricandBeyond:ArtHistory,theGlobalTurn andthePossibilitiesofComparison(2022). blih d li b C bid i i blih d li b C bid i i ARTICULATING RESISTANCE UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE edited by DANIEL JOLOWICZ DowningCollege,Cambridge JAŚ ELSNER CorpusChristiCollege,Oxford blih d li b C bid i i ShaftesburyRoad,Cambridgecb28ea,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108484909 doi:10.1017/9781108753425 ©CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment2023 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished2023 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Jolowicz,Daniel,1986–editor,author.|Elsner,Jaś,editor,writerofintroduction. title:ArticulatingresistanceundertheRomanEmpire/editedbyDanielJolowicz,King's CollegeLondon,JaśElsner,CorpusChristiCollege,Oxford. description:Cambridge;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2023.|Thisvolume derivesfromaseminarseriesheldatCorpusChristiCollege,Oxford,in2014undertheauspices oftheCentrefortheStudyofGreekandRomanAntiquity,andaonedaycolloquiumhostedby theFacultyofClassics,Cambridge,in2017.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. identifiers:lccn2022033118(print)|lccn2022033119(ebook)|isbn9781108484909 (hardback)|isbn9781108718851(paperback)|isbn9781108753425(ebook) subjects:lcsh:Government,Resistanceto–Rome–History.|Rome–History–Empire,30 b.c.-476a.d.|Rome–Politicsandgovernment–30b.c.-476a.d.|Civilization–Roman influences.|Politicsandliterature–Rome–History.|Politicsandculture–Rome–History.| Classicalliterature–Politicalaspects.|Classicalliterature–Historyandcriticism. classification:lccdg271.a782023(print)|lccdg271(ebook)|ddc936/.03-dc23/eng/ 20220915 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022033118 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022033119 isbn978-1-108-48490-9Hardback CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessmenthasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. blih d li b C bid i i Contents ListofContributors pagevii Acknowledgements ix ListofAbbreviations x Introduction:ArticulatingResistance 1 DanielJolowiczandJaśElsner part i language and identity 27 1 LinguisticResistancetoRome:AReappraisal oftheEpigraphicEvidence 29 KatherineMcDonaldandNicholasZair part ii genres of literary resistance 49 2 CourtroomRhetoricinImperialandLateAntique PhilosophicalDialogues 51 DawnLaValleNorman 3 GreekDeclamationandtheArtofResistance 71 WilliamGuast 4 Plutarch’sParallelismandResistance 89 EranAlmagor 5 AGlitchintheMatrix:Aphrodisias,RomeandImperial GreekFiction 112 DanielJolowicz v blih d li b C bid i i vi Contents part iii identity negotiation 137 6 PortrayingPower:Lucian’sImaginesandMarcusAurelius’ Meditations 139 NicolòD’Alconzo 7 SatireandthePolisinLucian’sTimonorTheMisanthrope 158 AneurinEllis-Evans part iv religion and resistance 183 8 Anti-RomanSibyl(s) 185 HelenVanNoorden 9 TraditionsofResistanceinGreco-EgyptianNarratives 204 IanRutherford 10 JuliantheEmperorandtheReactionagainstChristianity: ACaseStudyofResistancefromtheTop 219 LeaNiccolai Epilogue:ResistingResistance 239 SimonGoldhill References 257 Index 297 blih d li b C bid i i Contributors eran almagor IndependentscholarbasedinIsrael nicolo` d’alconzo GhentUniversity aneurin ellis-evans UniversityCollege,Oxford jas´ elsner CorpusChristiCollege,Oxford simon goldhill King’sCollege,Cambridge william guast WinchesterCollege daniel jolowicz DowningCollege,Cambridge katherine mcdonald DepartmentofClassicsandAncientHistory DurhamUniversity lea niccolai TrinityCollege,Cambridge dawn lavalle norman InstituteforReligionandCriticalInquiry AustralianCatholicUniversity vii blih d li b C bid i i viii ListofContributors ian rutherford DepartmentofClassics,SchoolofHumanities UniversityofReading helen van noorden GirtonCollege,Cambridge nicholas zair Peterhouse,Cambridge blih d li b C bid i i Acknowledgements ThisvolumederivesfromaseminarseriesheldatCorpusChristiCollege, Oxford, in 2014 under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Greek andRomanAntiquity,andaone-daycolloquiumhostedbytheFacultyof Classics, Cambridge, in 2017. The editors would like to extend their gratitudetobothoftheseinstitutions,whosegenerousfinancialassistance made these occasions possible. Our warmest appreciation is also owed to thecontributorsandaudiencesoftheseeventsforgeneratingsuchvigorous andrewardingconversationsaboutthisever-urgenttopic.Itisapleasureto recordourthankstoMichaelSharpe,theeditorforCambridgeUniversity Press who supported this project from the outset, and to the anonymous readerwhoprovidedmuchusefulfeedback. D.A.J. J.E. ix blih d li b C bid i i
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