Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature,
volume 363 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10764674 |
Table of 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.