LEADER 02545nam 22003853a 450 001 9910433242903321 005 20230711200734.0 010 $a3-946317-83-9 035 $a(CKB)4900000000508559 035 $a(ScCtBLL)2f3406f6-0569-4260-98c5-9c2d32863a24 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35868 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000000508559 100 $a20211214i20172020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAccommodating the Individual $eIdentity and Control after Alexander /$fHenry Heitmann-Gordon 210 $cVandenhoeck & Ruprecht$d2017 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cVandenhoeck & Ruprecht,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 $a3-946317-14-6 330 $aHow did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's world-changing conquest of the Persian Empire? How were old values upheld and reshaped? And how did the societies of Greek cities and royal courts accommodate the overwhelming newfound power of Greek individuals? By developing a custom methodology, this book tries to shed new light on the complex textuality of the period of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander. In four case studies, new readings are presented of Theophrastus Characters and Xenophon's Cyropaedia, but also of the substantial early Hellenistic anecdotal material, as well as the Colossus of Rhodes. The studies are united by an interest in how these texts cast the relationships between individuals and how they constructed various media of interrelation, such as money, friendship, women and the divine. Reading these texts on these terms reveals how values were renegotiated through paradoxes and inverted stories that subtly reshaped the utopias of the 4th century BCE. Overall, the study's hypothesis is that this particular brand of social storytelling contributed to the stabilisation of the nascent Hellenistic world by providing new visions of society capable of accommodating individual power and offering a new sense of control and place. 606 $aHistory / Europe / Renaissance$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aHistory / Europe / Renaissance 615 0$aHistory 700 $aHeitmann-Gordon$b Henry$01071152 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910433242903321 996 $aAccommodating the Individual$92565996 997 $aUNINA