Localism in Hellenistic Greece / ed. by Sheila Ager, Hans Beck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ager, Sheila, Editor.

Beck, Hans, Editor.

Series:

Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 61

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.) : 1 b&w illustration, 2 b&w maps

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores how various processes impacted the countless small-scale, local communities of the Greek mainland. Drawing on notions of locality, localism, local tradition, and boundedness in place, Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck delve into some of the main hubs of Hellenistic Greece, from Thessaly to Cape Tainaron. Along with their contributors, they explore how polis and ethnos societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding horizon and the meaning-making force of the local. The book reveals how local discourses were energized by local sentiments and, much like an echo chamber, how discourses related back to the community and the place it occupied, prioritizing the local as the critical source of communal orientation. Engaging with debates about cultural connectivity and convergence, Localism in Hellenistic Greece offers new insights into lived experience in ancient Greece.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

1 Introduction: Localism in Hellenistic Greece

2 Localism and Environmental History in the Hellenistic Kopaic Basin

3 Healing a Battlefeld: The Local World of Hellenistic Chaironeia

4 The Other Side of the Stone: Local Proxenia in the Hellenistic Euboian Gulf

5 Notes on Matrimonial Strategies in Civic Contexts

6 Local Horizons for the Thessalian Eleutheria

7 The Problematic Localism of the Hellenistic Aitolians

8 Aligning the Dots: Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding World

9 The Local Voice of Enmity: Kleomenes III, Sparta, and Argos

10 "Sparta is my country": Competitive Localism in Hellenistic Sparta

11 Shaping and Reshaping Local Memories in Megalopolis: The Case of the Tyrants Aristodamos and Lydiadas

12 Global Activities in a Localized Context: Mercenaries, Proxeny, and the Small Local World of Hellenistic Mani

13 Being Syracusan in the Hellenistic World

14 Between the Local and the Global: Intersectional Elites at Antiochia ad Cragum in Roman Rough Cilicia

15 Afterword: Refections on Hellenistic Localism

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Feb 2024)

ISBN:

1-4875-4838-9

1-4875-4837-0