Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world /

Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world / edited by Sheila L. Ager and Riemer A. Faber. - Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 399 pages) : illustrations. - Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 51 . - Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 51. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-386) and index.

Introduction: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world: themes and questions / Intercultural poetics and identity. "If I am from Syria-so what?": Meleager's Cosmopoetics / Invective from the cultural periphery: the case of Hermeias of Kourion / Genre and ethnicity in the Epigrams of Meleager / On the margins? Ethnicity and hellenicity. Belonging and isolation in Central Anatolia: the Galatians in the Graeco-Roman world / The importance of being Aitolian / Democracy in the Hellenistic world / Symploke: Mediterranean systems and networks. Polybios and international systems theory / Networks in the Hellenistic economy / Diplomacy and the integration of the Hasmonean state / Alexandria: the invention of a city. Founding Alexandria in the Alexandrian imagination / The birth myths of Ptolemy Soter / "Alexandrianism" again: regionalism, Alexandria, and aesthetics / Integration: social in-groups and out-groups. Staging the Oikos: character and belonging in Menander's Samia / Making yourself at home in the Hellenistic world / Mère-patrie et patrie d'adoption à l'èpoque hellénistique: réflexions à partir du cas des mercenaires crétois de Milet / Insulae: geopolitics and geopoetics. "Entirely ignorant of the Agora" (Alkiphron 1.14.3): fishing and the economy of Hellenistic Delos / De l'ouverture au repli: Les prêts du sanctuaire de Délos / Connections, origins, and the construction of belonging in the poetry of Kallimachos / Sheila Ager and Riemer Faber -- Regina Höschele ; Peter Bing ; Kathryn Gutzwiller -- Altay Coşkun ; Joseph Scholten ; Glen Bugh -- Arthur Eckstein ; Gary Reger ; Claude Eilers -- Andrew Erskine ; Daniel Ogden ; Craig I. Hardiman -- Christina Vester ; Ruth Westgare ; Patrick Baker -- Ephraim Lytle ; Léopold Migeotte ; Mary Depew. pt. 1: pt. 2: pt. 3: pt. 4: pt. 5: pt. 6:

With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.


16 essays in English, 2 in French.

9781442699441 (electronic bk.) 1442699442 (electronic bk.) 1442644222 9781442644229

10.3138/9781442699441 doi

22573/ctt5bs90 JSTOR

2013409153

C20129046213




To 146 B.C.


Hellenism.
Belonging (Social psychology)--Mediterranean Region.
Social isolation--Mediterranean Region.
Hellénisme.
Hellenism.
HISTORY--Ancient--Greece.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Civilization.
Hellenism.
Social isolation.


Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.
Mediterranean Region--Civilization.
Grèce--Civilisation--Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Méditerranée, Région de la--Civilisation.
Greece.
Mediterranean Region.


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