| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 399 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 51
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Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 51.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-386) and index. |
| Contents |
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 ; 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 ; 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 ; Mère-patrie et patrie d'adoption à l'èpoque hellénistique: réflexions à partir du cas des mercenaires crétois 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 Délos / Léopold Migeotte ; Connections, origins, and the construction of belonging in the poetry of Kallimachos / Mary Depew. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
16 essays in English, 2 in French. |
| Subject |
Hellenism.
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Hellenism. |
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Belonging (Social psychology) -- Mediterranean Region.
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Belonging (Social psychology) |
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Mediterranean Region. |
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Social isolation -- Mediterranean Region.
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Social isolation. |
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
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Mediterranean Region -- Civilization.
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Hellenism. |
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Civilization. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ager, Sheila L., 1956-
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Faber, Riemer A.
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| In: |
Druckausg.: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world. Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, ©2013 1442644222 (DLC) 2013409153 (OCoLC)842397558 |
| ISBN |
9781442699441 (electronic book) |
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1442699442 (electronic book) |
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1442644222 |
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9781442644229 |
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9781442644229 |
| Standard No. |
10.3138/9781442699441 |
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