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Hellenisms

Author : Katerina Zacharia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351931067
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Hellenisms written by Katerina Zacharia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume casts a fresh look at the multifaceted expressions of diachronic Hellenisms. A distinguished group of historians, classicists, anthropologists, ethnographers, cultural studies, and comparative literature scholars contribute essays exploring the variegated mantles of Greek ethnicity, and the legacy of Greek culture for the ancient and modern Greeks in the homeland and the diaspora, as well as for the ancient Romans and the modern Europeans. Given the scarcity of books on diachronic Hellenism in the English-speaking world, the publication of this volume represents nothing less than a breakthrough. The book provides a valuable forum to reflect on Hellenism, and is certain to generate further academic interest in the topic. The specific contribution of this volume lies in the fact that it problematizes the fluidity of Hellenism and offers a much-needed public dialogue between disparate viewpoints, in the process making a case for the existence and viability of such a polyphony. The chapters in this volume offer a reorientation of the study of Hellenism away from a binary perception to approaches giving priority to fluidity, hybridity, and multi-vocality. The volume also deals with issues of recycling tradition, cultural category, and perceptions of ethnicity. Topics explored range from European Philhellenism to Hellenic Hellenism, from the Athens 2004 Olympics to Greek cinema, from a psychoanalytical engagement with anthropological material to a subtle ethnographic analysis of Greek-American women's material culture. The readership envisaged is both academic and non-specialist; with this aim in mind, all quotations from ancient and modern sources in foreign languages have been translated into English.

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Author : Basil Dufallo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472221124
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy written by Basil Dufallo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Roman Hellenism—defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power—begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think of the architecture of the Roman capital, the Campanian towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius, and the Hellenic culture of the Etruscans. Perhaps “everybody knows” that Rome adapted Greek culture in a steadily more “sophisticated” way as its prosperity and might increased. This volume, however, argues that the assumption of smooth continuity, let alone steady “improvement,” in any aspect of Roman Hellenism can blind us to important aspects of what Roman Hellenism really is and how it functions in a given context. As the first book to focus on the comparison of Roman Hellenisms per se, Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy shows that such comparison is especially valuable in revealing how any singular instance of the phenomenon is situated and specific, and has its own life, trajectory, circumstances, and afterlife. Roman Hellenism is always a work in progress, is often strategic, often falls prey to being forgotten, decontextualized, or reread in later periods, and thus is in important senses contingent. Further, what we may broadly identify as a Roman Hellenism need not imply Rome as the only center of influence. Roman Hellenism is often decentralized, and depends strongly on local agents, aesthetics, and materials. With this in mind, the essays concentrate geographically on Italy to lend both focus and breadth to our topic, as well as to emphasize the complex interrelation of Hellenism at Rome with Rome’s surroundings. Because Hellenism, whether as practiced by Romans or Rome’s subjects, is in fact widely diffused across far-flung geographical regions, the final part of the collection gestures to this broader context.

Political Uses of the Past

Author : Giovanni Levi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135315701
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Political Uses of the Past written by Giovanni Levi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses political and historiographical uses of history. A group of leading historians and thinkers discuss questions of collective identity and representation in relation to the fluctuating concept of "Past" and its changing relevance. Among the topics are Greek historiographical questions, Balkan history, the Armenian problem, and the Plaestine historical narrative.

Hellenism

Author : Norman Bentwich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellenism written by Norman Bentwich and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Greek Language

Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004128352
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Greek Language written by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A History of the Greek Language" is a kaleidoscopic collection of ideas on the development of the Greek language through the centuries of its existence.

Hellenism

Author : Norman De Mattos Bentwich
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473381193
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Hellenism written by Norman De Mattos Bentwich and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into the spread of Greek culture that went with the invasion forces of Alexander the great as he invaded and captured the countries of the middle east.

Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean

Author : Boris Chrubasik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198805667
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean by : Boris Chrubasik

Download or read book Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean written by Boris Chrubasik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of Alexander the Great was a catalyst for change throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, opening up new spaces for interaction between Greek and non-Greek cultures. In exploring these, this volume reassesses the concepts of 'Hellenism' and 'Hellenization' and their usefulness for understanding cultural exchange in this region and era

Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination

Author : Martin McKinsey
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838642012
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Book Synopsis Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination by : Martin McKinsey

Download or read book Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination written by Martin McKinsey and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott follows the careers of three major poets of the European and North American periphery as they engage one of the master tropes of Western civilization. As colonial subjects, they inherited an Anglicized version of Hellenism whose borders might easily have excluded them as civilizational "others." The book describes the diverse strategies they used--from Bloomian kenosis to Afro-Caribbean "signifyin(g)"--to make Hellenism their own. Their use of Greek material, the book argues, is closely tied to their need as members of colonial minorities--Irish Protestant, Greek-Egyptian, and "part-white and Methodist"--to define themselves against mainstream metropolitan culture on the one hand, and nationalist constructions of the post-colonial homeland on the other. Their Hellenisms participate in the dialectic of local and global, as the poets at once indigenize the Universal Greek, and re-deploy him to hybridize national culture. The result is a triangulated dynamic that challenges established notions of the postcolonial. Among works discussed are Tennyson's "Ulysses," Yeats's "No Second Troy," C.P. Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians," and Walcott's Omeros. Martin McKinsey is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

Rediscovering Hellenism

Author : G. W. Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521354806
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Hellenism written by G. W. Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heritage and Hellenism

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520929197
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Heritage and Hellenism written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction of Jew and Greek in antiquity intrigues the imagination. Both civilizations boasted great traditions, their roots stretching back to legendary ancestors and divine sanction. In the wake of Alexander the Great's triumphant successes, Greeks and Macedonians came as conquerors and settled as ruling classes in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. Hellenic culture, the culture of the ascendant classes in many of the cities of the Near East, held widespread attraction and appeal. Jews were certainly not immune. In this thoroughly researched, lucidly written work, Erich Gruen draws on a wide variety of literary and historical texts of the period to explore a central question: How did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it? Erich Gruen's work highlights Jewish creativity, ingenuity, and inventiveness, as the Jews engaged actively with the traditions of Hellas, adapting genres and transforming legends to articulate their own legacy in modes congenial to a Hellenistic setting. Drawing on a diverse array of texts composed in Greek by Jews over a broad period of time, Gruen explores works by Jewish historians, epic poets, tragic dramatists, writers of romance and novels, exegetes, philosophers, apocalyptic visionaries, and composers of fanciful fables—not to mention pseudonymous forgers and fabricators. In these works, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us the best insights into Jewish self-perception in that era.

Hellenism

Author : Arnold Toynbee
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hellenism written by Arnold Toynbee and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys Hellenism from its earliest beginnings at the end of the second millennium B. C. until its decline in the seventh century of the Christian era. A provocative analysis of the Greek ideal.

Hellenism and the East

Author : Michael Avi-Yonah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Hellenism and the East written by Michael Avi-Yonah and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Persia in Western History

Author : Sasan Samiei
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773606X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Persia in Western History written by Sasan Samiei and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which venerated Classicism and Hellenistic history, with later writers such as John Linton Myres. Finally, Samiei explores the cross-cultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Hellenism and the Primary History

Author : Robert Karl Gnuse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000164926
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hellenism and the Primary History written by Robert Karl Gnuse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays seeks to demonstrate that many biblical authors deliberately used Classical and Hellenistic Greek texts for inspiration when crafting many of the narratives in the Primary History. Through detailed analysis of the text, Gnuse contends that there are numerous examples of clear influence from late classical and Hellenistic literature. Deconstructing the biblical and Greek works in parallel, he argues that there are too many similarities in basic theme, meaning, and detail, for them to be accounted for by coincidence or shared ancient tropes. Using this evidence, he suggests that although much of the text may originate from the Persian period, large parts of its final form likely date from the Hellenistic era. With the help of an original introduction and final chapter, Gnuse pulls his essays together into a coherent collection for the first time. The resultant volume offers a valuable resource for anyone working on the dating of the Hebrew Bible, as well as those working on Hellenism in the ancient Levant more broadly.

Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference

Author : Alex G. Papadopoulos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135101868X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference written by Alex G. Papadopoulos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores competing definitions of Hellenism in the making of the Greek state by drawing on critical historical and geopolitical perspectives and their intersection with difference and exclusion. It examines Greece’s central role in shaping the state system, regional security, and nationalisms of the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean regions. Understanding the Greek State's social constitution helps learn about the past and present intentions and strategies as well as local, national, and European notions of security and identity. The book looks at the relation of subaltern communities to state power and the state’s ability and willingness to negotiate difference. It also explores how the State’s identity politics shaped regional geopolitics in the past two centuries. Chapters present case studies that shed light on the Hellenization of Jewish Thessaloniki, the Treaty of Lausanne’s making of Western Thrace’s Muslim minority, the role and modes of settlement, urbanization, and ‘bordering-as-statecraft’ in Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace, and the politics of erecting the Athens Mosque, the first officially-licensed mosque outside Western Thrace since Greek Independence. With examples from fieldwork in Greek cities and borderlands, this book offers a wealth of primary research from geographers and historians on the modern history of Greek statehood. It will be of key interest to scholars of political geography, international relations, and European history.

Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity

Author : Polymnia Athanassiadi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135155672X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity written by Polymnia Athanassiadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21 studies in this volume, which deal with issues of social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the ways whereby over the course of a few hundred years -roughly between the second and the fifth centuries A.D.- an anthropocentric culture mutated into a theocentric one. Rather than underlining the differences between a revamped paganism and the emergent Christian traditions, the essays in the volume focus on the processes of osmosis, interaction and acculturation, which shaped the change in priorities among the newly created textual communities that were spreading across the entire breadth of the late antique oecumene. The main issues considered in this connection include the phenomena of textuality and holy scripture, canonicity and exclusion, truth and error, prophecy and tradition, authority and challenge, faith and salvation, holy places and holy men, in the context of the construction of new orthodox readings of the Greek philosophical heritage. Moreover the volume suggests that intolerant attitudes, which form a characteristic trait of monotheisms, were not an exclusive preserve of Christianity (as the Enlightenment tradition would insist), but were progressively espoused by pagan philosophers and divine men as part of the theory and practice of Hellenism‘s theological koine. Efforts to establish the monopoly of a revealed truth against any rival claims were transversal to the textual communities which emerged in late antiquity and remodelled the intellectual and spiritual landscape of the Greater Mediterranean.

Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism

Author : Tatiani Rapatzikou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443802735
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism written by Tatiani Rapatzikou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume an attempt is made to tackle Hellenism as a global and transcultural entity. Through an array of essays, this book constitutes a comparative study of various literary, cultural and artistic trends as these develop throughout the course of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic. Having been designed with the general as well as the specialized reader in mind, this book will prove to be a valuable guide to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to a broad spectrum of readers with an interest in comparative literature, cultural history, history of the classical heritage, transatlantic studies, English and American romantic, modernist and postmodernist narratives. Its diverse material falls under the umbrella terms of “English Hellenisms” and “American Hellenisms” with the intention of enhancing intercultural dialogue and understanding. By embracing multivocality, as proven by the number of articles it contains, this book proves the tenacity, diachronic and intercontinental appeal of Hellenism at the era of multiculturalism and globalization.