Title: Local knowledge and microidentities in the imperial Greek world /
Authors: Whitmarsh, Tim,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Group identity Greece History; Greeks Ethnic identity History; Ethnicity Greece.; Regionalism Greece History.; Human geography Greece.; Greece History; Rome History
Abstract: "This volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates: in some cases it was complementary with imperial objectives, but in others tension can be discerned. The volume as a whole seeks to add texture and nuance to the existing literature on Greek identity, which has tended in recent years to emphasise the umbrella category of the Greek, to the detriment of specific polis and regional identities. It also contributes to the growing literature on the Romanisation of provinces, by emphasizing the dialogue between a region's self-identification as a distinct space and its self-awareness as a component of the centrally governed empire"--
Contents: 1. Thinking local / Tim Whitmarsh -- 2. Imperial identities / Clifford Ando -- 3. What is local identity? The politics of cultural mapping / Simon Goldhill -- 4. Europa's sons: Roman perceptions of Cretan identity / Ilaria Romeo -- 5. The Ionians of Paphlagonia / Stephen Mitchell -- 6. Ancestry and identity in the Roman empire / Christopher Jones -- 7. Making space for bicultural identity: Herodes Atticus commemorates Regilla / Maud Gleason -- 8. Being Termessian: local knowledge and identity politics in a Pisidian city / Onno Van Nijf -- 9. Epilogue / Greg Woolf.