Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World
In: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of figure and table -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The reception of Gramsci's thought in historical and classical studies -- 1. Negotiating hegemony in early Greek poetry -- 2. Upside-down hegemony? Ideology and power in ancient Athens -- 3. Gramsci and ancient philosophy: Prelude to a study -- 4. A Gramscian approach to ancient slavery -- 5. The Etruscan question: An academic controversy in the Prison Notebook -- 6. Polybios and the rise of Rome: Gramscian hegemony, intellectuals, and passive revolution -- 7. Antonio Gramsci between ancient and modern imperialism -- 8. Plebeian tribunes and cosmopolitan intellectuals: Gramsci's approach to the late Roman Republic -- 9. Between Caesarism and Cosmopolitanism: Julius Caesar as an Historical Problem in Gramsci -- 10. Gramsci and the Roman Cultural Revolution -- 11. Caesarism as stasis from Gramsci to Lucan: An "Equilibrium with catastrophic prospects" -- 12. Hegemony in the Roman Principate: Perceptions of power in Gramsci, Tacitus, and Luke -- 13. Gramsci's view of Late Antiquity: Between longue durée and discontinuity -- 14. Cultural hegemonies, 'NIE-orthodoxy', and social-development models: Classicists' 'organic' approaches to economic history in the early XXI century -- Afterthoughts -- 1. The author as intellectual? Hints and thoughts towards a Gramscian 're-reading' of the ancient literatures -- 2. Hegemony, coercion and consensus: A Gramscian approach to Greek cultural and political history -- 3. Hegemony, ideology, and ancient history: Notes towards the development of an intersectional framework -- General index -- Index of the ancient sources -- Index of Gramsci's texts.