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City and Empire in the Age of the Successors : Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms / / Ryan Boehm



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Autore: Boehm Ryan Visualizza persona
Titolo: City and Empire in the Age of the Successors : Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms / / Ryan Boehm Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018]
©2018
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina: 938.08
Soggetto topico: City-states - Greece - History
Soggetto geografico: Greece Civilization To 146 B.C
Soggetto non controllato: alexander the great
archaeological
contest for supremacy
disparate territories
epigraphic
fragmented world
greece
greek polis
hellenistic kingdoms
important cities
local actors
new cities
political struggles
presumptive rulers
settlement
small settlements
synoikism
textual evidence
undefended polities
urban agglomerations
urbanized network of cities
violence
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Urbanization and the Imperial Framework -- 1. Imperial Geographies: City, Settlement, and Ideology in the Formation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms -- 2. Urbanization and Economic Networks -- Part Two. Cult, Polis, Empire: The Religious and Social Dimensions of Synoikism -- 3. Civic Cults between Continuity and Change -- 4. Consensus, Community, and Discourses of Power -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index Locorum
Sommario/riassunto: In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors' contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their control, they increasingly developed new cities by merging smaller settlements into large urban agglomerations. This practice of synoikism gave rise to many of the most important cities of the age, initiated major shifts in patterns of settlement, and consolidated numerous previously independent polities. The result was the increasing transformation of the fragmented world of the small Greek polis into an urbanized network of cities. Drawing on a wide array of archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and argues for the agency of local actors in the formation of these new imperial cities.
Titolo autorizzato: City and Empire in the Age of the Successors  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-96922-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796593903321
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