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1 online resource (458 pages) : maps. |
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Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 363 |
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ; v. 363.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C.
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Electronic books.
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Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia, 1962-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images. Leiden : Brill, 2013 xviii, 436 pages Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; volume 363 9789004257986 (DLC) 2013034466 |
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9789004257986 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9789004257993 (electronic bk.) |
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