Leisured Resistance: Villas, Literature and Politics in the Roman World 9780715634899

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Автор: Michael Dewar
Название: Leisured Resistance: Villas, Literature and Politics in the Roman World
ISBN: 9780715634899
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Литературоведение: Классическое, раннего, высокого и позднего средневековья до 1500 г.

ISBN-10: 0715634895
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 144
Вес: 0.30 кг.
Дата издания: 05.12.2013
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 223 x 136 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, HISTORY / Ancient / General,HISTORY / Ancient / Rome,HISTORY / Social History
Основная тема: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,HISTORY / Ancient / General,HISTORY / Ancient / Rome,HISTORY / Social History
Подзаголовок: Villas, literature and politics in the roman world
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium (or deliberate retirement from everyday politics) to present radical and competing visions of society and literature alike. Examining in-depth sources from both prose and verse from the time of Cicero to the last centuries of the Roman Empire in the west, the title demonstrates how the traditional image of the Roman aristocrat on his country estate was politically and socially very flexible: allowing authors, as times and circumstances changed, to present themselves or their patrons and friends as being in retreat from politics, or alternatively, as providing a focus for political opposition through the deliberate embracing of cultural values and schools of philosophy that offered resistance to prevailing political orthodoxy. The title ends by exploring how this tradition was adapted in the greatly changed world of the barbarian-ruled kingdoms that replaced direct Roman rule in Gaul in the fifth and sixth centuries.
Дополнительное описание: Abbreviations Chronology Acknowledgements 1. Cicero and the Generals: Living the Life of Laertes 2. Martial, Statius and the Epicureans: Marvellous is the Quietness of the Sea 3. Pliny and the Best of Princes: Worn Down by a Thousand Labours 4. Juve

Leisured Resistance: Villas, Literature and Politics in the Roman World, Michael Dewar