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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Introduction /Jason König, Nicolas Wiater --The empire becomes a body : power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories /Nicolas Wiater --Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps : geography and empire in the Garland of Philip /Thomas A. Schmitz...
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Introduction /Jason König, Nicolas Wiater --The empire becomes a body : power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories /Nicolas Wiater --Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps : geography and empire in the Garland of Philip /Thomas A. Schmitz --Sailing the sea, sailing an image : periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines /Mario Baumann --Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature : landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus /Jason König --Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism : Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis /Benjamin Gray --The wrath of the Sibyl : Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 /Emma Greensmith --Imagining belonging : the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome /Joy Connolly --Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography /Myrto Hatzimichali --Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities' : Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history /Felix K. Maier --'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists /Lawrence Kim --Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio : rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic /Casper C. de Jonge --Envoi : to live in Hellenistic times /Simon Goldhill.
Most of the papers in this volume derive from a confrence entitled Rethinking late Hellenistic literature and the Second Sophistic, held at the School of Classics, University of St. Andrews