Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

This book proposes a new means of identifying how Greek and Syrian identities were expressed in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East.

List of contents

Introduction: signification and cultural performance in Roman imperial Syria; Part I. Greek Poleis and the Syrian Ethnos (2nd century BCE-1st 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 rulers (63-31 BCE); 3. Converging paths: Syrian Greeks of the Roman Near East (31 BCE-CE 73); Part II. Greek Collectives in Syria (1st-3rd centuries CE): 4. The Syrian Ethnos' Greek cities: dispositions and hegemonies (1st-3rd centuries CE); 5. Cities of imperial frontiers (1st-3rd centuries CE); 6. Hadrian and Palmyra: contrasting visions of Greekness (1st-3rd centuries CE); 7. Dura-Europos: changing paradigms for civic Greekness; Part III. Imitation Greeks: Being Greek and Being Other (2nd and 3rd 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 and On the Syrian Goddess; 11. The ascendency of Syrian Greekness and Romanness; Conclusion.

About the author

Nathanael J. Andrade is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oregon.

Summary

Drawing upon the issues raised by postcolonial and performance theory, this book evaluates how Syrians redefined Greekness and negotiated the pressures of Greek colonialism and Roman imperialism. Of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists and classicists generally and for those studying the Near East in particular.

Product details

• Authors: Nathanael J. Andrade, Nathanael J. (University of Oregon) Andrade, Andrade Nathanael J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781108456531
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45653-1
• No. of pages: 442
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Syria, Middle East, Judaism, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, New Testaments, Biblical Studies & Exegesis