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Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world / edited by Sheila L. Ager and Riemer A. Faber.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Series: Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; ; 51.Analytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 399 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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ISBN:
  • 9781442699441
  • 1442699442
  • 1442644222
  • 9781442644229
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world.DDC classification:
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  • DF77 .B44 2013eb
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Introduction: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world: themes and questions / Sheila Ager and Riemer Faber -- pt. 1: Intercultural poetics and identity. "If I am from Syria-so what?": Meleager's Cosmopoetics / Regina Höschele ; Invective from the cultural periphery: the case of Hermeias of Kourion / Peter Bing ; Genre and ethnicity in the Epigrams of Meleager / Kathryn Gutzwiller -- pt. 2: On the margins? Ethnicity and hellenicity. Belonging and isolation in Central Anatolia: the Galatians in the Graeco-Roman world / Altay Coşkun ; The importance of being Aitolian / Joseph Scholten ; Democracy in the Hellenistic world / Glen Bugh -- pt. 3: Symploke: Mediterranean systems and networks. Polybios and international systems theory / Arthur Eckstein ; Networks in the Hellenistic economy / Gary Reger ; Diplomacy and the integration of the Hasmonean state / Claude Eilers -- pt. 4: Alexandria: the invention of a city. Founding Alexandria in the Alexandrian imagination / Andrew Erskine ; The birth myths of Ptolemy Soter / Daniel Ogden ; "Alexandrianism" again: regionalism, Alexandria, and aesthetics / Craig I. Hardiman -- pt. 5: Integration: social in-groups and out-groups. Staging the Oikos: character and belonging in Menander's Samia / Christina Vester ; Making yourself at home in the Hellenistic world / Ruth Westgare ; Mère-patrie et patrie d'adoption à l'èpoque hellénistique: réflexions à partir du cas des mercenaires crétois de Milet / Patrick Baker -- pt. 6: Insulae: geopolitics and geopoetics. "Entirely ignorant of the Agora" (Alkiphron 1.14.3): fishing and the economy of Hellenistic Delos / Ephraim Lytle ; De l'ouverture au repli: Les prêts du sanctuaire de Délos / Léopold Migeotte ; Connections, origins, and the construction of belonging in the poetry of Kallimachos / Mary Depew.
Druckausg.: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic worldSummary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-386) and index.

16 essays in English, 2 in French.

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

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.

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