Cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean
By: edited by Erich S. Gruen
Series: Issues & debates
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780892369690
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ways of becoming Arcadian : Arcadian foundation myths in the Mediterranean / Tanja S. Scheer; title: Pictorial foundation myths in Roman Asia Minor / Pascale Linant de Bellefonds; title: Myths, images, and the typology of identities in early Greek art / Tonio Hölscher; title: Herodotus and Persia / Erich S. Gruen; title: Embracing ambiguity in the world of Athens and Persia / Margaret Cool Root; title: "Manners makyth man" : diacritical drinking in Achaemenid Anatolia / Margaret C. Miller; title: Keeping up with the Persians : between cultural identity and Persianization in the Achaemenid period / Maria Brosius; title: The limits of Persianization : some reflections on cultural links in the Persian empire / Christopher Tuplin; title: The pity of war : representations of Gauls and Germans in Roman art / I.M. Ferris; title: Borealism : Caesar, Seneca, Tacitus, and the Roman discourse about the Germanic north / Christopher B. Krebs; title: Ethnicity in Roman portraiture / Elizabeth Bartman; title: Saving the barbarian / Greg Woolf; title: Surviving by the book : the language of the Greek Bible and Jewish identity / Tessa Rajak; title: Jewish identity at the limus : the earliest reception of the dura europos synagogue paintings / Steven Fine; title: Keeping the dead in their place : Jewish commemoration and cultural identity in Roman North Africa / Karen B. Stern.; title: "Egyptian" priests in Roman Italy / Molly Swetnam-Burland; title: Aegyptiaca in Rome : adventus and romanitas / Penelope J.E. Davies; title: On gods and earth : the Tophet and the construction of a new identity in Punic Carthage / Corinne Bonnet; title: The cultures of the Tophet : identification and identity in the Phoenician diaspora / Josephine Crawley Quinn; title: Pompeian identities : between Oscan, Samnite, Greek, Roman, and Punic / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill; title: Sharing new worlds : mixed identities around the Adriatic (sixth to fourth centuries B.C.E.) / Maria Cecilia D'Ercole; title: Contesting sacred space in Lebanese temples / Kevin Butcher; title: The self as other : performing humor in ancient Greek art / Ada Cohen; title: Attitudes toward provincial intellectuals in the Roman empire / Benjamin Isaac.