Localism in Hellenistic Greece

by: Ager, S. Beck, H.

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Localism in Hellenistic Greece

Sheila Ager and Hans Beck

The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores how various processes impacted the countless small-scale, local communities of the Greek mainland.

Drawing on notions of locality, localism, local tradition, and boundedness in place, Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck delve into some of the main hubs of Hellenistic Greece, from Thessaly to Cape Tainaron. Along with their contributors, they explore how polis and ethnos societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding horizon and the meaning-making force of the local. The book reveals how local discourses were energized by local sentiments and, much like an echo chamber, how discourses related back to the community and the place it occupied, prioritizing the local as the critical source of communal orientation. Engaging with debates about cultural connectivity and convergence, Localism in Hellenistic Greece offers new insights into lived experience in ancient Greece.

Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores, in exemplary fashion, how ancient societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding world.

Sheila L. Ager is a professor of ancient history and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo.

Hans Beck is a professor and chair of Greek history at M໮ster University and adjunct professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

Preface
ppvii–viii

1
Introduction: Localism in Hellenistic Greece
Hans Beck
pp2–35

2
Localism and Environmental History in the Hellenistic Kopaic Basin
Ruben Post
pp36–67

3
Healing a Battlefield: The Local World of Hellenistic Chaironeia
Chandra Giroux
pp68–107

4
The Other Side of the Stone: Local Proxenia in the Hellenistic Euboian Gulf
Alex Mcauley
pp108–131

5
Notes on Matrimonial Strategies in Civic Contexts
sara saba
pp132–145

6
Local Horizons for the Thessalian Eleutheria
Denver Graninger
pp145–178

7
The Problematic Localism of the Hellenistic Aitolians
Joseph B. Scholten
pp180–199

8
Aligning the Dots: Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding World
Peter Funke
pp200–215

9
The Local Voice of Enmity: Kleomenes III, Sparta, and Argos
Elena Franchi
pp216–245

10
“Sparta is my country”: Competitive Localism in Hellenistic Sparta
Sebastian Scharff
pp245–277

11
Shaping and Reshaping Local Memories in Megalopolis: The Case of the Tyrants Aristodamos and Lydiadas
James Roy
pp278–297

12
Global Activities in a Localized Context: Mercenaries, Proxeny, and the Small Local World of Hellenistic Mani
Chelsea A.M. Gardner
pp298–325

13
Being Syracusan in the Hellenistic World
Mark Thatcher
pp326–349

14
Between the Local and the Global: Intersectional Elites at Antiochia ad Cragum in Roman Rough Cilicia
timothy howe
pp350–365

15
Afterword: Reflections on Hellenistic Localism
Sheila L. Ager
pp366–380

Contributors
pp381–382

Index
pp383–398

Localism in Hellenistic Greece

by: Ager, S. Beck, H.

• ISBN-13: 9781487548315
• ISBN-03: 1487548311
• University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2024

Price: 85,00 EURO

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Das Giebelrelief von Telamon und seine Stellung innerhalb der Ikonographie der 'Sieben gegen Theben'

by: Von Freytag Gen. Loringhoff, B.

• ISBN-13: 9783805308977 / 978-3-8053-0897-7
• ISBN-03: 3805308973 / 3-8053-0897-3
• Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 1986

Price: 69,00 EURO

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