Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue

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.

Introduction Jason König and Nicolas Wiater; 1. The empire becomes a body: power, space and movement in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater; 2. Pyrenaean mountains and deep-valleyed alps: geography and empire in the Garland of Philip Thomas A. Schmitz; 3. Sailing the sea, sailing an image: periplus and mediality in Diodorus' Bibliotheke and Philostratus' Imagines Mario Baumann; 4. Ecocritical readings in late Hellenistic literature: landscape alteration and hybris in Strabo and Diodorus Jason König; 5. Civic and counter-civic cosmopolitanism: Diodorus, Strabo and the later Hellenistic polis Benjamin Gray; 6. The Wrath of the Sibyl: Homeric reception and contested identities in the Sibylline Oracles 3 Emma Greensmith; 7. Imagining belonging: the use of Athens in Hellenistic Rome Joy Connolly; 8. Philosophical self-definition in Strabo's Geography Myrto Hatzimichali; 9. Narrating 'the swarm of possibilities': Plutarch, Polybius and the idea of contingency in history Felix K. Maier; 10. 'Asianist' style in Hellenistic oratory and Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists Lawrence Kim; 11. Greek reading lists from Dionysius to Dio: rhetorical imitation in the Augustan age and the Second Sophistic Casper C. de Jonge; 12. Envoi: To live in Hellenistic times Simon Goldhill.