Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images / edited by Eftychia Stavrianopoulou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia, 1962-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 363.

Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 363

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.

Greece.

Greece--History--Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is a long tradition in classical scholarship of reducing the Hellenistic period to the spreading of Greek language and culture far beyond the borders of the Mediterranean. More than anything else this perception has hindered an appreciation of the manifold consequences triggered by the creation of new spaces of connectivity linking different cultures and societies in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. In adopting a new approach this volume explores the effects of the continuous adaptations of ideas and practices to new contexts of meaning on the social imaginaries of the parties participating in these intercultural encounters. The essays show that the seemingly static end-products of the interaction between Greek and non-Greek groups, such as texts, images, and objects, were embedded in long-term discourses, and thus subject to continuously shifting processes.

Contents:

Change and continuity

Deja vu? visual culture in western Asia Minor at the beginning of Hellenistic rule / Deniz Kaptan

The image of the city in Hellenistic Babylonia / Heather D. Baker

Babylonian, Macedonian, king of the world: the Antiochos cylinder from Borsippa and Seleukid imperial integration / Rolf Strootman

A religious continuity between the dynastic and Ptolemaic periods? self-presentation and identity of Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCR) / Gilles Gorre

Shifting conceptions of the divine: Sarapis as part of Ptolemaic Egypt's social imaginary / Eleni Fassa

Modes of cultural appropriation

Aretalogies / Andrea Jordens

Hellenistic world(s) and the elusive concept of 'Greekness' / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou

'Jews as the best of all Greeks': cultural competition in the literary works of Alexandrian Judaeans of the Hellenistic period / Sylvie Honigman

Political institutions and the Lykian and Karian language in the process of Hellenization between the Achaemenids and the early Diadochi / Christian Marek

Interculturality in image and cult in the Hellenistic east: Tyrian Melqart revisited / Jessica L. Nitschke

The spread of Greek polis institutions in Hellenistic Cappadocia and the peer polity interaction model / Christoph Michels

Shifting worldviews

Ceremonies, athletics and the city: some remarks on the social imaginary of the Greek city of the Hellenistic period / Onno van Nijf

The view from the old world: contemporary perspectives on Hellenistic culture / Andrew Erskine

The Hellenistic far east: from the oikoumene to the community / Rachel Mairs

Epilogue: Alexander the Great and Iskander dhu'l-Qarnayn: memory, myth and representation of a conqueror from Iran to south east India through the eyes of travel literature / Omar Coloru.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-25799-3

OCLC:

858861675

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004257993 DOI