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List of figures List of contributors Preface List of abbreviations Chapter 1: Enlightened King or Pragmatic Rulers? Ptolemaic Patronage of Scholarship and Sciences in Context – Francesca Schironi Chapter 2: How (not?) to Talk to Monarchs: The Case of the Epicurean Diogenes of Seleucia – Clive Chandler Chapter 3: A Disillusioned Intellectual: Timagenes of Alexandria – Livia Capponi Chapter 4: Reassessing Ovid’s Image of Tiberius and his Principate – Sanjaya Thakur Chapter 5: Entangled Imperial Identities: Citizen, Subject, and Mentor in Plutarch’s Aratus – Mallory Monaco Caterine Chapter 6: The Misleading Representations of Dion as Philosopher-General in Plutarch’s Life – Richard Evans Chapter 7: Magister Domino: Intellectual and Pedagogical Power in Fronto’s Correspondence – Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael Chapter 8: Marcus Aurelius, Greek Poets, and Greek Sophists: Friends or Foes? – Ewen Bowie Chapter 9: Entertainers, Persuaders, Adversaries: Interactions of Sophists and Rulers in Philostratus’ Lives of Sophists – Katarzyna Jażdżewska Chapter 10: Lucian on Roman Officials – Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Chapter 11: How to Flatter an Imperial Mistress: The Image of Panthea in Lucian’s Imagines – Balbina Bäbler Chapter 12: Speaking Truth to Power: Julian, the Cynics, and the Ethiopian Gymnosophists of Heliodorus – John Hilton Index