Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world / / edited by Sheila L. Ager and Riemer A. Faber

• Autore: Ager Sheila
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Disciplina: 938/.08
• Soggetto topico: Hellenism; Belonging (Social psychology) - Mediterranean Region; Social isolation - Mediterranean Region
• Soggetto geografico: Mediterranean Region Civilization; Greece Civilization To 146 B.C
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): AgerSheila L. <1956->; FaberRiemer A.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world
• ISBN: 1-4426-9944-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787532103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Phoenix. . -Supplementary volume ; ; 51.