Table of Contents

Introduction (David Konstan); "Macedonian times": Hellenistic memories in the provinces of the Roman Near East (Tony Spawforth); Fiction, mimesis and the performance of the past in the Second Sophistic (Ruth Webb); The rewriting of the Athenian past: from Isocrates to Aelius Aristides (Suzanne Sad); Choral performances (Ewen Bowie); The sincerest form of imitation: Plutarch on flattery (Tim Whitmarsh); Artemis and cultural identity in empire culture: how to think about polytheism, now? (Simon Goldhill); Playing games with Greeks: One Roman on Greekness (Greg Woolf).

About the Author

David Konstan is John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Suzanne Sad is Professor of Classics at Columbia University.