Leisured Resistance

Michael Dewar

Original title: Leisured resistance

earliest edition we have, 2013 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013

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"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 so...

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Leisured resistance edition · 2015 · 130 pages · 9781474244022
Leisured Resistance edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781306723992
Leisured Resistance edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781472504111
Leisured Resistance edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781472504128

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