Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world
By: edited by Sheila L. Ager and Riemer A. Faber
Series: Phoenix. Supplementary volume -- 51; Phoenix -- 51.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto, ON
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781442644229
Subjects: Weltbürgertum; Social isolation; Belonging (Social psychology); Appartenance (Psychologie sociale); Ausgrenzung; Civilization; Hellénisme; Gruppenidentität; Isolement social; Hellenism; Civilisation; Hellenismus
Description: "The Hellenistic period was a time of unprecedented cultural exchange. In the wake of Alexander's conquests, Greeks and Macedonians began to encounter new peoples, new ideas, and new ways of life; consequently, this era is generally considered to have been one of unmatched cosmopolitanism. For many individuals, however, the broadening of horizons brought with it an identity crisis and a sense of being adrift in a world that had undergone a radical structural change.

Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World presents essays by leading international scholars who consider how the cosmopolitanism of the Hellenistic age also brought about tensions between individuals and communities, and between the small local community and the mega-community of oikoumene, or 'the inhabited earth.' 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."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-386) and index.

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16 essays in English, 2 in French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Belonging and isolation in the Hellenistic world: themes and questions  -- Sheila Ager and Riemer Faber -- pt. 1:; title: Intercultural poetics and identity.; title: "If I am from Syria-so what?": Meleager's Cosmopoetics  -- Regina Höschele ;; title: Invective from the cultural periphery: the case of Hermeias of Kourion  -- Peter Bing ;; title: Genre and ethnicity in the Epigrams of Meleager  -- Kathryn Gutzwiller -- pt. 2:; title: On the margins? Ethnicity and hellenicity.; title: Belonging and isolation in Central Anatolia: the Galatians in the Graeco-Roman world  -- Altay Coşkun ;; title: The importance of being Aitolian  -- Joseph Scholten ;; title: Democracy in the Hellenistic world  -- Glen Bugh -- pt. 3:; title: Symploke: Mediterranean systems and networks.; title: Polybios and international systems theory  -- Arthur Eckstein ;; title: Networks in the Hellenistic economy  -- Gary Reger ;; title: Diplomacy and the integration of the Hasmonean state  -- Claude Eilers -- pt. 4:; title: Alexandria: the invention of a city.; title: Founding Alexandria in the Alexandrian imagination  -- Andrew Erskine ;; title: The birth myths of Ptolemy Soter  -- Daniel Ogden ;; title: "Alexandrianism" again: regionalism, Alexandria, and aesthetics  -- Craig I. Hardiman -- pt. 5:; title: Integration: social in-groups and out-groups.; title: Staging the Oikos: character and belonging in Menander's Samia  -- Christina Vester ;; title: Making yourself at home in the Hellenistic world  -- Ruth Westgare ;; title: Mère-patrie et patrie d'adoption à l'èpoque hellénistique: réflexions à partir du cas des mercenaires crétois de Milet  -- Patrick Baker -- pt. 6:; title: Insulae: geopolitics and geopoetics.; title: "Entirely ignorant of the Agora" (Alkiphron 1.14.3): fishing and the economy of Hellenistic Delos  -- Ephraim Lytle ;; title: De l'ouverture au repli: Les prêts du sanctuaire de Délos  -- Léopold Migeotte ;; title: Connections, origins, and the construction of belonging in the poetry of Kallimachos -- Mary Depew.