Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World

Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World
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
	Antonio Gramsci: a biographical sketch
	From his death to 1975: the first long phase of Gramsci’s reception
	Gramsci’s early reception in the English-speaking context
	Gramsci and post-war Italian classical scholarship
	The Golden Age and the Gerratana edition (1975)
	The Seminario di Antichistica
	A philological renaissance and a global re-use
	Gramsci and the Classics: hegemony and ideology
	The structure of this volume
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
1 Negotiating hegemony in early Greek poetry
	Coercion and consent among Hesiodic beasts and men
	Maintaining the Homeric hegemony
	Navigating hegemony in Archilochean abuse poetry
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
2 Upside-down hegemony? Ideology and power in ancient Athens
	Introduction
	The ēthos of the politeia and Gramscian hegemony
	Whose ‘hegemony’ in Athens?
	Honorific practices as a locus of hegemony
	Egalitarianism and social differentiation through the honour system
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
3 Gramsci and ancient philosophy: Prelude to a study
	Introduction
	Gramsci on philosophy and history
	History of philosophy as a philosophy of praxis
	Conclusions, and a return to Plato
	Notes
	Bibliography
4 A Gramscian approach to ancient slavery
	Modalities of slavery: Artemidorus as a case-study
	Modalities, hegemony, and slave agency
	Beyond and below slavery: the alternative identities of enslaved persons and their historical consequences
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
5 The Etruscan question: An academic controversy in the Prison Notebook
	The debate on the Etruscan language at the beginning of XX century
	The Etruscan language between academia and politics
	Finale (with a surprise)
	Notes
	Bibliography
6 Polybios and the rise of Rome: Gramscian hegemony, intellectuals, and passive revolution
	Gramsci’s concepts: hegemony, intellectuals, and passive revolution
	Polybios and the Greek world in the II century BCE
	Roman dominance in the East: minimal hegemony and failed passive revolution
	Polybios: a ‘Gramscian’ intellectual in the II century BCE
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
7 Antonio Gramsci between ancient and modern imperialism
	Modern and ancient imperialism
	Gramsci on colonialism
	Gramsci on imperial government
	Gramsci’s cosmopolitanism and Rome’s legacy
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
8 Plebeian tribunes and cosmopolitan intellectuals: Gramsci’s approach to the late Roman Republic
	The plebeian State
	Debating Roman Italy
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
9 Between Caesarism and Cosmopolitanism: Julius Caesar as an Historical Problem in Gramsci
	Defining Caesarism
	Caesarism in Italian History
	Cosmopolitanism and Italian History
	Gramsci and the Modern Historiography on the Roman Empire
	Notes
	Bibliography
10 Gramsci and the Roman Cultural Revolution
	Rome’s Cultural Revolution
	On Gramsci
	Coercion and consent
	Propaganda and ideology
	Augustan antinomies
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
11 Caesarism as stasis from Gramsci to Lucan: An “Equilibrium with catastrophic prospects”
	Caesarism in Gramsci: A + B = AB or C?
	The doublethink of Caesarism
	Caesarism as stasis in Lucan’s Bellum ciuile
	Notes
	Bibliography
12 Hegemony in the Roman Principate: Perceptions of power in Gramsci, Tacitus, and Luke
	Notes
	Bibliography
13 Gramsci’s view of Late Antiquity: Between longue durée and discontinuity
	Late Antiquity: a controversial concept
		The “Birth” of Late Antiquity
		The ‘Optimistic’ turn
		Recent developments
	Gramsci on Late Antiquity
		Crisis
		East and West
		The beginning of the Middle Ages
		The ancient economic structure
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
	Bibliography
14 Cultural hegemonies, ‘NIE-orthodoxy’, and social-development models: Classicists’ ‘organic’ approaches to economic history in the early XXI century
	A short history of the first century of cultural hegemonies in the scholarship on the ancient economy
	“NIE orthodoxy” and the tropes of modernity
	“Be careful what you wish for”: Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel as organic intellectuals
	The social development model through Gramsci’s eyes
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
Afterthoughts
1 The author as intellectual? Hints and thoughts towards a Gramscian ‘re-reading’ of the ancient literatures
	Gramscian categories in Antonio La Penna’s work: a starting point
	The Gramscian category of ‘intellectuals’ and the literary production in the Greek and Roman world
	Reading Virgil through Gramsci: new questions for a long-standing debate
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	Bibliography
2 Hegemony, coercion and consensus: A Gramscian approach to Greek cultural and political history
	Introduction
	Greek timē and Gramsci: prerogatives and hegemony in ancient Greece
	Greek political systems and Gramsci: hegemony and inequalities within the Greek polis
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
3 Hegemony, ideology, and ancient history: Notes towards the development of an intersectional framework
	Two contextual issues: coercion and class
	Overcoming class binarism: subject-position and anti-essentialism
	Constructing hegemony in a Foucauldian power structure
	Notes
	Bibliography
General index
Index of the ancient sources
Index of Gramsci’s texts