The Hellenistic West : rethinking the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Jonathan R.W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prag, J. R. W., author, editor.

Quinn, Josephine Crawley, author, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hellenism--History.

Hellenism.

Greeks--Mediterranean Region--History.

Greeks.

Greeks--Colonization--Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Greek influences.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 471 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek history than a reflection of the Hellenistic-period Mediterranean, which was a strongly interconnected cultural and economic zone, with the rising Roman republic just one among many powers in the region, east and west. The contributors argue for a dynamic reading of the economy, politics and history of the central and western Mediterranean beyond Rome, and in doing so problematise the concepts of 'East', 'West' and 'Hellenistic' itself.

Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan R.W. Prag and Josephine Crawley Quinn

The view from the East / Andrew Erskine

Hellenistic Pompeii : between Oscan, Greek, Roman, and Punic / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

The 'Hellenistics of death' in Adriatic central Italy / Edward Bispham

Hellenistic Sicily, c.270-100 BC / R.J.A. Wilson

Trading across the Syrtes : Euesperides and the Punic world / Andrew Wilson

Strangers in the city : elite communication in the Hellenistic central Mediterranean / Elizabeth Fentress

Monumental power : 'Numidian royal architecture' in context / Josephine Crawley Quinn

Representing hellenistic Numidia, in Africa and at Rome / Ann Kuttner

Hellenism as subaltern practice : rural cults in the Punic world / Peter van Dommelen and Mireia Lopez-Bertran

Were the Iberians Hellenized? / Simon Keay

Epigraphy in the western Mediterranean : a Hellenistic phenomenon? / Jonathan R.W. Prag

Heracles, coinage, and the West : three Hellenistic case-studies / Liv Mariah Yarrow

On the significance of East and West in today's 'Hellenistic' history / Nicholas Purcell.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89241-X

1-107-77951-0

1-107-77874-3

1-107-78491-3

1-107-78445-X

1-107-78125-6

1-107-78001-2

1-139-50598-X

OCLC:

869735815