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Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world
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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 Mediterr...
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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- edited by Sheila L. Ager and Riemer A. Faber
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- English
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- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2013
- ©2013
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- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1442699442, 9781442644229, 9781442699441, 1442644222
- OCLC
- ocn979756911, ocn852803481
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Issued also in print.
- English
- 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 ; Mere-patrie et patrie d'adoption à l'epoque hellenistique: reflexions à 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 prêts du sanctuaire de Delos / Leopold Migeotte ; Connections, origins, and the construction of belonging in the poetry of Kallimachos / Mary Depew