Andrew Scholtz Instructor Question How does envy win Another question Why doesnt envy vanquish fortune Ho phthonos tukhēn ou nikai Envy does not vanquish fortune Portico column agora Aphrodisias ca 500 CE ID: 686529
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Race for Glory:
Greek Civilization Under Rome
Andrew Scholtz, InstructorSlide2
Question…Slide3
How does envy win?Slide4
Another question…Slide5
Why doesn’t envy vanquish fortune?Slide6
Ho phthonos tukhēn
ou nikai“Envy does not vanquish fortune!”
Portico column, agora, Aphrodisias, ca. 500 CESlide7
A question about a quotation…Slide8
“Are we to believe … that democracy nurtures greatness, and great writers flourished with democracy and died with it? … We of the present day … seem to have learned in infancy to live under justified slavery. … We end up as flatterers in the grand manner
.”(Longinus On the Sublime 44.2–3. Original in Greek, 1st cent. CE)
What is “the philosopher” talking about? Why would he think that?Slide9
What is this all about?Slide10
Roman Empire in 125 CE.
Andrei N. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
EphesusSlide11
Library of
Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey. Completed 1st half 2nd cent. CESlide12
Agonism
agōn, “contest”AthleticsDiplomacyPoliticsPhilanthropyRhetoricSocial lifeBusinessAnything!
Alexander and Helix, champion pancratiasts. Ostia
Antica
, Italy. Between 210 and 235 CESlide13
Sophist, Ephesus
“Second Sophistic”
1
st
–3
rd
cent. CE
Rhetoric
paideiaSlide14
Guiding question…Slide15
How to be Greek under Rome?Slide16
CLAS 382E / COLI 331J / PPL 380G / RHET 450G
. Andrew Scholtz, Instructor (ascholtz@binghamton.edu). TR 1:15-2:40. Academic Building B 125. Competitive culture — rhetoric, athletics, literature, philanthropy, etc. — in the Greek-speaking Roman East, 1st-3rd cent. CE. Lecture, discussion, online journals, exams, rhetorical exercises (spoken, written). Course counts toward "H" (humanities), "O" (oral) GenEds; Harpur "W" (writing). Students with special needs are asked to inform the instructor.Race for Glory: Greek Civilization Under RomeSlide17
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