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Roman Hellenism: Case of conqueror becoming conquered !
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Roman Hellenism
The Augustan poet Horace described the encounter of Rome with Greek culture in imaginative, gender-sensitive terms: a brutal conqueror (Rome) ended up being conquered by the captive woman (Greece) he had brought home with him. What exactly is the point of such imagery? Is this a sensible assessment of events? What was ‘feminine’ about Greek culture that fascinated (or irritated) the Romans? How did the legacy of the Greek East contribute to shape Roman national identity? When, and why, exactly did this process take place?
These are some of the questions we shall attempt to answer, concentrating on the cultural milieu of the 3rd and 2nd century BC as reflected in the literary records. Historical and philosophical works, public speeches, poetic and dramatic texts from this complex period of Republican history survive largely enough to tell us, in various ways, the story of a Rome increasingly Hellenised, cosmopolitan, and imperialist.
To guide our inquiry we shall use two controversial books that first highlighted in an unorthodox manner “the place of Greek culture in Roman public life and in the articulation of national values” (E.S. Gruen). We shall take a chapter per session and discuss it in parallel with the appropriate literary evidence (see Seminar Topics). Critical bibliography will be recommended for each topic.
The diverse nature of the primary texts makes this course broadly interdisciplinary. One seminar will be devoted to Roman appropriations of Greek art; the remaining sessions will discuss the following literature: epic poetry (starting from the first Latin translation of Homer to the early Roman national poems), drama (adapted from Greek models), satire (a Roman aristocrat ‘invented’ it, more or less at the same time as the Roman conquest of Greece), oratory (public speeches reflect the heated debate among the ruling classes over the growing interest for all things Greek), philosophy (directly imported from Greece not without difficulties and interesting adjustments), history (oddly enough, it was at its most significant written in Greek).
Course Books (recommended for purchase)
.Gruen, E.S., Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy (1990)
.Gruen, E.S., Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1992). Review by G. Forsythe.
Primary Texts
.Plautus, Four Comedies (Oxford World’s Classics)
.Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)
.Plutarch, Makers of Rome (Penguin Classics)
.Terence, The Comedies (Penguin Classics)
.Fragmentary works and related evidence: hand-outs.
Select Critical Works
.Astin, A.E., Cato the Censor (1978)
.Astin, A.E., Scipio Aemilianus (1967)
.Badian, E., Review of E. Malcovati, Oratorum Romanorum .Fragmenta, 2nd ed., JRS 46 (1956) 218-221.
.Badian, E., ‘Ennius and his Friends’, in Ennius, EntrHardt 17 (1972) 151-199.
.Balsdon, J.P.V.D., Romans and Aliens (1979).
.Derow, P.S., ‘Philhellenism’, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1996)
.Earl, D., ‘Terence and Roman Politics’, Historia 11 (1962) 469-485.
.Erskine, A.W., The Hellenistic Stoa (1990).
.Erskine, A.W., ‘The Romans as Common Benefactors’, Historia 1994, 70-87.
.Garbrah, K.A., ‘Terence and Scipio: An Echo of Terence in the Oratorical Fragments of Scipio Aemilianus?’ Athenaeum 59 (1981) 188-191.
.Gilula, D., ‘Greek Drama in Rome: Some Aspects of Cultural Transposition’, in H. Scolnicov and P. Holland (eds.), The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture (1989).
.Gold, B.K. (ed.), Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome (1982).
.Gold, B.K., Literary patronage in Greece and Rome (1989).
.Goldberg, S.M., Understanding Terence (1989).
.Gratwick, A.S., ‘The Satires of Ennius and Lucilius’, in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. II Part 1, The Early Republic (1982) 156-171.
.Horsfall, N., ‘Doctus sermones utriusque linguae’, EMC 23 (1979) 85-95.
.Horsfall, N., ‘The Collegium Poetarum’, BICS 23 (1976) 79-95.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘The Poet Cn. Naevius, P. Cornelius Scipio and Q. Caecilius Metellus’, Antichthon 3 (1967) 32-47.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘Discussion on Badian, Ennius and his Friends’, in Ennius, EntrHardt 17 (1972) 200-201.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘The Poems of Quintus Ennius’, ANRW 1.2. (1972): 987-1026.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto’, Antichthon 7 (1973) 14-46.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘The Ruling Class of the Roman Republic and Greek Philosophers’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 59 (1976-7), 323-366.
.MacMullen, R., ‘Hellenizing the Romans (2nd Century B.C.)’, Historia 40 (1991) 419-438.
.Momigliano, A., Alien Wisdom. The Limits of Hellenization (1975).
.Raschke, W.J. ‘Arma pro amico – Lucilian Satire at the Crisis of the Roman Republic’, Hermes 115 (1987) 299-318.
.Raschke, W.J., ‘The Chronology of the Early Books of Lucilius’, JRS 69 (1979) 78-89.
.Raschke, W.J., ‘The Virtue of Lucilius’, Latomus 49 (1990) 352-369.
.Rawson, E., Intellectual Life in the Roman Republic (1985).
.Rawson, E., ‘Roman Tradition and the Greek World’, in
.Cambridge Ancient History (2nd ed.) VIII (1989) 422-476.
.Van Sickle, J., ‘The Elogia of the Cornelii Scipiones and the Origin of the Epigram at Rome’, AJP 108 (1987) 41-55.
.Walbank, F.W., ‘Political Morality and the Friends of Scipio’, JRS 55 (1965) 1-16.
.Walbank, F.W., ‘The Scipionic Legend’, PCPS 13 (1967) 54-69.
.Wallace-Hadrill, A., ‘Greek Knowledge, Roman Power’, CP 83 (1988). 244-244.
.Wardman, A., Rome’s Debt to Greece (1976).
.Wiseman, P.T. Review of J.N. Bremmer and N.M. Horsfall, Romany Myth and Mythography (1987), JRS 1989, 129-137.
.Zetzel, J.E.G., ‘Cicero and the Scipionic Circle’, HSCP 76 (1972) 173-179.
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Posted by AAdmin: 10/15/04 6:41 pm
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Roman Hellenism
The Augustan poet Horace described the encounter of Rome with Greek culture in imaginative, gender-sensitive terms: a brutal conqueror (Rome) ended up being conquered by the captive woman (Greece) he had brought home with him. What exactly is the point of such imagery? Is this a sensible assessment of events? What was ‘feminine’ about Greek culture that fascinated (or irritated) the Romans? How did the legacy of the Greek East contribute to shape Roman national identity? When, and why, exactly did this process take place?
These are some of the questions we shall attempt to answer, concentrating on the cultural milieu of the 3rd and 2nd century BC as reflected in the literary records. Historical and philosophical works, public speeches, poetic and dramatic texts from this complex period of Republican history survive largely enough to tell us, in various ways, the story of a Rome increasingly Hellenised, cosmopolitan, and imperialist.
To guide our inquiry we shall use two controversial books that first highlighted in an unorthodox manner “the place of Greek culture in Roman public life and in the articulation of national values” (E.S. Gruen). We shall take a chapter per session and discuss it in parallel with the appropriate literary evidence (see Seminar Topics). Critical bibliography will be recommended for each topic.
The diverse nature of the primary texts makes this course broadly interdisciplinary. One seminar will be devoted to Roman appropriations of Greek art; the remaining sessions will discuss the following literature: epic poetry (starting from the first Latin translation of Homer to the early Roman national poems), drama (adapted from Greek models), satire (a Roman aristocrat ‘invented’ it, more or less at the same time as the Roman conquest of Greece), oratory (public speeches reflect the heated debate among the ruling classes over the growing interest for all things Greek), philosophy (directly imported from Greece not without difficulties and interesting adjustments), history (oddly enough, it was at its most significant written in Greek).
Course Books (recommended for purchase)
.Gruen, E.S., Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy (1990)
.Gruen, E.S., Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1992). Review by G. Forsythe.
Primary Texts
.Plautus, Four Comedies (Oxford World’s Classics)
.Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)
.Plutarch, Makers of Rome (Penguin Classics)
.Terence, The Comedies (Penguin Classics)
.Fragmentary works and related evidence: hand-outs.
Select Critical Works
.Astin, A.E., Cato the Censor (1978)
.Astin, A.E., Scipio Aemilianus (1967)
.Badian, E., Review of E. Malcovati, Oratorum Romanorum .Fragmenta, 2nd ed., JRS 46 (1956) 218-221.
.Badian, E., ‘Ennius and his Friends’, in Ennius, EntrHardt 17 (1972) 151-199.
.Balsdon, J.P.V.D., Romans and Aliens (1979).
.Derow, P.S., ‘Philhellenism’, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (1996)
.Earl, D., ‘Terence and Roman Politics’, Historia 11 (1962) 469-485.
.Erskine, A.W., The Hellenistic Stoa (1990).
.Erskine, A.W., ‘The Romans as Common Benefactors’, Historia 1994, 70-87.
.Garbrah, K.A., ‘Terence and Scipio: An Echo of Terence in the Oratorical Fragments of Scipio Aemilianus?’ Athenaeum 59 (1981) 188-191.
.Gilula, D., ‘Greek Drama in Rome: Some Aspects of Cultural Transposition’, in H. Scolnicov and P. Holland (eds.), The Play Out of Context: Transferring Plays from Culture to Culture (1989).
.Gold, B.K. (ed.), Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome (1982).
.Gold, B.K., Literary patronage in Greece and Rome (1989).
.Goldberg, S.M., Understanding Terence (1989).
.Gratwick, A.S., ‘The Satires of Ennius and Lucilius’, in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, vol. II Part 1, The Early Republic (1982) 156-171.
.Horsfall, N., ‘Doctus sermones utriusque linguae’, EMC 23 (1979) 85-95.
.Horsfall, N., ‘The Collegium Poetarum’, BICS 23 (1976) 79-95.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘The Poet Cn. Naevius, P. Cornelius Scipio and Q. Caecilius Metellus’, Antichthon 3 (1967) 32-47.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘Discussion on Badian, Ennius and his Friends’, in Ennius, EntrHardt 17 (1972) 200-201.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘The Poems of Quintus Ennius’, ANRW 1.2. (1972): 987-1026.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto’, Antichthon 7 (1973) 14-46.
.Jocelyn, H.D., ‘The Ruling Class of the Roman Republic and Greek Philosophers’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 59 (1976-7), 323-366.
.MacMullen, R., ‘Hellenizing the Romans (2nd Century B.C.)’, Historia 40 (1991) 419-438.
.Momigliano, A., Alien Wisdom. The Limits of Hellenization (1975).
.Raschke, W.J. ‘Arma pro amico – Lucilian Satire at the Crisis of the Roman Republic’, Hermes 115 (1987) 299-318.
.Raschke, W.J., ‘The Chronology of the Early Books of Lucilius’, JRS 69 (1979) 78-89.
.Raschke, W.J., ‘The Virtue of Lucilius’, Latomus 49 (1990) 352-369.
.Rawson, E., Intellectual Life in the Roman Republic (1985).
.Rawson, E., ‘Roman Tradition and the Greek World’, in
.Cambridge Ancient History (2nd ed.) VIII (1989) 422-476.
.Van Sickle, J., ‘The Elogia of the Cornelii Scipiones and the Origin of the Epigram at Rome’, AJP 108 (1987) 41-55.
.Walbank, F.W., ‘Political Morality and the Friends of Scipio’, JRS 55 (1965) 1-16.
.Walbank, F.W., ‘The Scipionic Legend’, PCPS 13 (1967) 54-69.
.Wallace-Hadrill, A., ‘Greek Knowledge, Roman Power’, CP 83 (1988). 244-244.
.Wardman, A., Rome’s Debt to Greece (1976).
.Wiseman, P.T. Review of J.N. Bremmer and N.M. Horsfall, Romany Myth and Mythography (1987), JRS 1989, 129-137.
.Zetzel, J.E.G., ‘Cicero and the Scipionic Circle’, HSCP 76 (1972) 173-179.
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