Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world

Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Umfang/Format: xii, 399 p. : ill.
Schriftenreihe: Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 51.
ISBN: 1442644222
9781442644229
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Hoschele ; 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 Coskun ; 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 ; Mere-patrie et patrie d'adoption a l'epoque hellenistique: reflexions a partir du cas des mercenaires cretois 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 prets du sanctuaire de Delos / Leopold Migeotte ; Connections, origins, and the construction of belonging in the poetry of Kallimachos / Mary Depew.