Free Download Basil Dufallo, "Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy"
English | ISBN: 0472133403 | 2023 | 394 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 6 MB
The story of Roman Hellenism-defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power-begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think of the architecture of the Roman capital, the Campanian towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius, and the Hellenic culture of the Etruscans. Perhaps "everybody knows" that Rome adapted Greek culture in a steadily more "sophisticated" way as its prosperity and might increased. This volume, however, argues that the assumption of smooth continuity, let alone steady "improvement," in any aspect of Roman Hellenism can blind us to important aspects of what Roman Hellenism really is and how it functions in a given context.