Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period narrations, practices, and images / edited by Eftychia Stavrianopoulou.

Other author Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia, 1962-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Descriptionpages cm
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Subjects
Greece--History. --Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
Greece--History. --Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.

SeriesMnemosyne supplements ; volume 363
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 363. ^A492133
Contents Change and continuity -- Deja vu? visual culture in western Asia Minor at the beginning of Hellenistic rule / Deniz Kaptan -- The image of the city in Hellenistic Babylonia / Heather D. Baker -- Babylonian, Macedonian, king of the world: the Antiochos cylinder from Borsippa and Seleukid imperial integration / Rolf Strootman -- A religious continuity between the dynastic and Ptolemaic periods? self-presentation and identity of Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCR) / Gilles Gorre -- Shifting conceptions of the divine: Sarapis as part of Ptolemaic Egypt's social imaginary / Eleni Fassa -- Modes of cultural appropriation -- Aretalogies / Andrea Jordens -- Hellenistic world(s) and the elusive concept of 'Greekness' / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou -- 'Jews as the best of all Greeks': cultural competition in the literary works of Alexandrian Judaeans of the Hellenistic period / Sylvie Honigman -- Political institutions and the Lykian and Karian language in the process of Hellenization between the Achaemenids and the early Diadochi / Christian Marek -- Interculturality in image and cult in the Hellenistic east: Tyrian Melqart revisited / Jessica L. Nitschke -- The spread of Greek polis institutions in Hellenistic Cappadocia and the peer polity interaction model / Christoph Michels -- Shifting worldviews -- Ceremonies, athletics and the city: some remarks on the social imaginary of the Greek city of the Hellenistic period / Onno van Nijf -- The view from the old world: contemporary perspectives on Hellenistic culture / Andrew Erskine -- The Hellenistic far east: from the oikoumene to the community / Rachel Mairs -- Epilogue: Alexander the Great and Iskander dhu'l-Qarnayn: memory, myth and representation of a conqueror from Iran to south east India through the eyes of travel literature / Omar Coloru.
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