Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

ISBN-13: 9781107012059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 444 str.

Nathanael J Andrade

Opis

Proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

Recenzje

'… [this] book is of great importance in both its method and its content for the study of Roman Syria and the surrounding region from the Seleucid period through the early Roman Empire. Scholars will benefit a great deal from Andrade's impressive contribution to, and reshaping of, these ongoing discussions.' Christine Shepardson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction: signification and cultural performance in Roman imperial Syria; Part I. Greek Poleis and the Syrian Ethnos (2nd century BCE–1st century CE): 1. Antiochus IV and the limits of Greekness under the Seleucids (175–63 BCE); 2. The theater of the frontier: local performance, Roman rulers (63–31 BCE); 3. Converging paths: Syrian Greeks of the Roman Near East (31 BCE–CE 73); Part II. Greek Collectives in Syria (1st–3rd centuries CE): 4. The Syrian Ethnos' Greek cities: dispositions and hegemonies (1st–3rd centuries CE); 5. Cities of imperial frontiers (1st–3rd centuries CE); 6. Hadrian and Palmyra: contrasting visions of Greekness (1st–3rd centuries CE); 7. Dura-Europos: changing paradigms for civic Greekness; Part III. Imitation Greeks: Being Greek and Being Other (2nd and 3rd centuries CE): 8. Greeks write Syria: performance and the signification of Greekness; 9. The theater of empire: Lucian, cultural performance, and Roman rule; 10. Syria writes back: Lucian and On the Syrian Goddess; 11. The ascendency of Syrian Greekness and Romanness; Conclusion.