Literary production, material contexts and cultural identities in the Mediterranean World

Literary production, material contexts and cultural identities in the first two centuries of the empire. 1 The West


Introduction: features and places of Latin literary production (4 hours)

Libraries in Rome and in the Roman World (4 hours)

Martial: The Unexpected Classic (6 hours)

Apuleius and the Second Sophistic in Africa (7 hours)

Bibliography

D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Martial, Epigrams: Edited and Translated,  3 vols., Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press 1993


Apuleius, Apologia, Florida, De deo Socratis, edited and translated by C.P. Jones, Cambridge MA/London 2017

Literary production, material contexts and cultural identities in the first two centuries of the empire. 2 The Greek East


Introduction: features and places of Greek literary production (4 hours)

Libraries in Athens, Alexandria, Pergamus (4 hours)

Lucian: local identities and Greek paideia (7 hours)

The Second Sophistic (6 hours)

Bibliography

N.Hopkinson (ed.), Lucian: A Selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin Texts, Cambridge/New York, CUP 2008


T. Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic, Cambridge, CUP 2005


S. Swain, Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD50–250, Oxford, OUP 1996

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