Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World

This exciting 2010 collection of essays offers a reappraisal of current ideas about Greek identity under the Roman empire. Drawing on extensive discussions of sources and modern theories of the tension between global and local identities, the authors argue that regional identities were both produced and challenged by Roman imperialism.

List of contents

1. Thinking local Tim Whitmarsh; 2. Imperial identities Clifford Ando; 3. What is local identity? The politics of cultural mapping Simon Goldhill; 4. Europa's sons: Roman perceptions of Cretan identity Ilaria Romeo; 5. The Ionians of Paphlagonia Stephen Mitchell; 6. Ancestry and identity in the Roman empire Christopher Jones; 7. Creating space for bicultural identity: Herodes Atticus commemorates Regilla Maud Gleason; 8. Being Termessian: local knowledge and identity politics in a Pisidian city Onno Van Nijf; 9. Epilogue Greg Woolf.

About the author

Tim Whitmarsh is fellow, tutor and E. P. Warren Praelector at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. A specialist in Greek literature and culture of the Roman period, he has written over 50 books and articles on the topic, including Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation (Oxford University Press, 2001) and The Second Sophistic (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He has lectured all over the world, appeared on BBC radio, and written for the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.

Summary

This exciting 2010 collection of essays offers a reappraisal of current ideas about Greek identity under the Roman empire. Drawing on extensive discussions of sources and modern theories of the tension between global and local identities, the authors argue that regional identities were both produced and challenged by Roman imperialism.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Whitmarsh, Tim (University of Oxford) Whitmarsh
• Assisted by: Tim Whitmarsh (Editor), Tim (University of Oxford) Whitmarsh (Editor), Whitmarsh Tim (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108984973
• ISBN: 978-1-108-98497-3
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Print on Demand; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory