INVESTIGADORES
MORENO LEONI alvaro Matias
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Interpreting the Roman world: Rhetoric of Otherness, Audience and Greek Culture in the Histories of Polybius
Autor/es:
MORENO LEONI, ÁLVARO MATÍAS
Lugar:
Hamburgo
Reunión:
Conferencia; Historische Seminar - Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften - Universität Hamburg
Resumen:
Polybius
spent seventeen years as a detainee in Rome, enough time to become involved in
Latin culture. Because of that Rome and its foreign cultural and social traits
could not be for him object of wonder. This statement, however, may be exaggerated.
To talk about a supposed identity between Polybius and Rome can distract us
from noticing many discursive clues that point to a survival in the Histories of an external reading of the
Roman world in a cultural Greek key. Therefore, to recognize that could help us
to show in which way Polybius attempted to show his Greek audience the Roman
world. It is important here, ultimately, to deal with cultural operations of
production, perception and interpretation of meanings that come into play in
the Histories.