LEADER 04331nam 22006972 450 001 9910452472503321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a1-139-88842-0 010 $a1-107-24119-7 010 $a1-107-25080-3 010 $a1-107-24997-X 010 $a1-107-24748-9 010 $a0-511-99780-9 010 $a1-107-24831-0 010 $a1-107-24914-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001115121 035 $a(EBL)1357563 035 $a(OCoLC)847663959 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000890267 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11449107 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000890267 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10883028 035 $a(PQKB)10541605 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511997808 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1357563 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1357563 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10752977 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL515423 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001115121 100 $a20110112d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSyrian identity in the Greco-Roman world /$fNathanael J. Andrade$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 412 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aGreek culture in the Roman world 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-01205-8 311 $a1-299-84172-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Part I. Greek Poleis and the Syrian Ethnos (Second Century BCE to First Century CE): 1. Antiochus IV and the limits of Greekness under the Seleucids (175-63 BCE); 2. The theater of the frontier: local performance, Roman rulers (63-31 BCE); 3. Converging paths: Syrian Greeks of the Roman Near East (31 BCE-73 CE) -- Part II. Greek Collectives in Syria (First to Third Centuries CE): 4. The Syrian Ethnos' Greek cities: dispositions and hegemonies (first to third centuries CE); 5. Cities of imperial frontiers (first to third centuries CE); 6. Hadrian and Palmyra: contrasting visions of Greekness (first to third centuries CE); 7. Dura-Europos: changing paradigms for civic Greekness -- Part III. Imitation Greeks: Being Greek and Being Other (Second and Third Centuries CE): 8. Greeks write Syria: performance and the signification of Greekness; 9. The theater of empire: Lucian, cultural performance, and Roman rule; 10. Syria writes back: Lucian's On the Syrian Goddess; 11. The ascendency of Syrian Greekness and Romanness -- Conclusion: a world restored. 330 $aBy engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts. 410 0$aGreek culture in the Roman world. 606 $aIdentity (Psychology)$zSyria$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aGroup identity$zSyria$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aSyria$xHistory$y333 B.C.-634 A.D 607 $aSyria$xCivilization$xGreek influences 607 $aSyria$xCivilization$xRoman influences 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology)$xHistory 615 0$aGroup identity$xHistory 676 $a939.4/305 700 $aAndrade$b Nathanael J.$01040764 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452472503321 996 $aSyrian identity in the Greco-Roman world$92463897 997 $aUNINA