Leisured Resistance: Villas, Literature and Politics in the Roman World

by Michael Dewar and Thomas Harrison

Book Overview

Leisured Resistance examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as a political and literary tool. While for some the villas were retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium (or deliberate retirement from everyday politics) to present radical and competing visions of society and literature alike...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474244025
• ISBN13: 9781474244022
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"