The Fabric of Hellenism
Hellenic Culture and Civic Identity in the Imperial Greek World
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 March 2026
- ISBN 9781399552455
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages744 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 66 b&w and 8 colour illustrations 700
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Short description:
Explores the cultural and civic identity of the Imperial Greek city, examining what it meant to be ?Greek? in the Roman Empire.
MoreLong description:
This authoritative series of essays brings together a group of eminent scholars engaged with Imperial Greece in the first work of its kind to address the art-history, archaeology, numismatics and prose literature of Imperial Greek cities in one volume, covering the period from pre-Imperial Hellenistic developments to the late third century CE.
The book provides a wide coverage and is organised into thematic sections including: the overall context of Greek cities in the Roman Empire and their Hellenistic roots; festival culture; prominent figures who shaped Hellenic identity; some key prose-writers of the period; Hellenism in action in the Roman Empire; and further perspectives on Hellenic culture outside the learned mainstreams.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction.
Ewen Bowie
Part II: The Hellenistic Prequel
2. Hellenistic Civic Identities: Evolving Intersections of Classical Athens, Paideia, and Democracy
Ben Gray
3. Acraephia and its Material Past in the Ptoia of the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Period
Paraskevi Martzavou
Part III: Ephebes and Festivals
4. Religious Visibility According to Ancestral Custom: Greek Festive Traditions, Poetic, Ritual and Other
Athena Kavoulaki
5. Gymnasia, Ephebates, and Hellenic Cultural Identity in Imperial Achaea
Matthew Evans
6. Celebrating Pythian Games: Hellenism and Local Identity in Civic Festivals of Asia Minor
Zahra Newby
Part IV: The Claudii Attici
7. Claudius Atticus, Father of Herodes, and the Spartan Ago?ge?: New Evidence
Tony Spawforth
8. Bodies, Landscape, and Entanglement: Reading Herodes Atticus? Marathonian Monuments through IG ii2 3606
Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Part V: The Perspectives of Philosophers, Sophists and Litterateurs
9. Eternal City? Delphi, Hellenism, and the Civic in Plutarch
Judith Mossman
10. Defining Hellenism: the Ideal Greek City According to Dio and Plutarch
Thomas Schmidt
11. The Pride of Being Hellenic in Prusa ad Olympum and Rhodes.
Anne Gangloff
12. The Fabric of Hellenic Civic Life in Alexandria According to Strabo, Dio of Prusa and Plutarch
Lucia Athanassaki
13. Questioning Greek Civic Identity at the Imperial Symposium: Plutarch and Athenaeus
Katerina Oikonomopoulou
14. Aelius Aristides on Smyrna and Rhodes
Michael Trapp
15. Imperial Cyzicus: Strabo, Tryphaena, Aristides
Janet Downie
16. Festival Athletics in the Imagines of the Elder Philostratus
Jas? Elsner and Michael Squire
17. Hellenic Culture and Identity in the Epistles and Other ?Minor? works of the Philostratean Corpus
Owen Hodkinson
18. Attic Landscapes Re-imagined: Alciphron?s Letters and the City-praise Tradition.
Jason Ko?nig
Part VI :Hellenic Traditions in Action
19. The Tomb and Library of Celsus at Ephesus: Converting Roman Power into Local Privilege
R. R. R. Smith
20. Communicating by Coinage: Money Talks
Ewen Bowie
Part VII: Greek Novels
21. Aphrodisias, Latin Poetry, and the Early Greek Novels: The Case of the Ninus and Chione Romances
Daniel Jolowicz
22. The Elite, the De?mos, and the Balance of Power in the Cities of the Ancient Greek Novels (ca. first-third centuries AD)
Sophie Lalanne
Part VIII: Outside the Ivory Towers
23. Seriously pederastic: The politics of pederasty in Roman Greece.
Tim Whitmarsh
24. The Fabric of Hellenism and Popular Culture in the Imperial Greek City: Materiality and Resistance
Lucy Grig
25. Christian Greek Literature in the Tradition of Hellenic Paideia in the Mid-third Century
Stephen Mitchell
26. Thinking about the Future with Greek Cities
Estelle Strazdins
Bibliography
Index
