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"Simon Swain's achievement...is to make inauthenticity the key to latter Greek literature instead of its embarrassment. In the first half of the book he examines the relationship between language, identity, and the past. he sees language as a form of cultural resistance to the Roman Empire, a purging of the conqueror from the lexicon..."Swain, Simon is the author of 'Hellenism and Empire Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, Ad 50-250' with ISBN 9780198147725 and ISBN 0198147724.
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