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040			_aXX-XxUND _cΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΩΝ
100	1		_aAndrade, Nathanael J. _4aut _9175715
245	1	0	_aSyrian identity in the Greco-Roman world / _cNathanael J. Andrade..
260			_aCambridge: _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_axxiii, 412 p. : _bills, maps ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aGreek culture in the Roman world
500			_aNathanael J. Andrade is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oregon.
502			_aBased on the author's doctoral dissertation (Univ. of Mchigan)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	1		_aIntroduction. Part I. Greek Poleis and the Syrian ethnos (second century BCE- first 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 rule (63-31 BCE) --3. Converging paths : Syrian Greeks of the Roman near East (31 BCE-CE 73) -- Part II. Greek Collectives in Syria (first-third centuries CE) --4. The Syrian ethnos' Greek cities : dispositions and hegemonies (first-third centuries CE) --5. Cities of imperial frontiers (first-third centuries CE) --6. Hadrian and Palmyra : contrasting visions of Greekness (first-third centuries CE) --7. Dura-Europos : changing paradigms for civic Greekness --Part III. Imitation Greeks : being Greek and being other (second and third 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's On the Syrian Goddess --11. The ascendency of Syrian Greekness and Romanness -- Conclusion : a world restored.
520			_a"By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts"-- By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts. Review: 'An important book ... an essential point of reference for anyone reflecting on what it meant to be 'Greek' in the ancient world.' The Times Literary Supplement '... [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
650		4	_aTo 1500 _9182522
650		4	_aIdentity (Psychology) _xHistory _xTo 1500. _zSyria _9179213
650		4	_aGroup identity _xHistory _xHistory _yTo 1500. _zSyria _9178867
650		4	_aCivilization _xGreek influences. _9177082
650		4	_aAncient Near East ; Ethnic studies _9175704
650		4	_aAncient Rome ; Syria _9175705
651		4	_aSyria _xHistory _y333 B.C. to 635 A.D _9182305
651		4	_aSyria _xCivilization _xGreek influences. _9182300
651		4	_aSyria _xCivilization _xRoman influences. _9182301
651		4	_aSyria _9182308
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