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1 Online-Ressource (478 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783946317838
Series Statement:
Die hellenistische Polis als Lebensform Band 8
Content:
How did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's world-changing conquest of the Persian Empire? How were old values upheld and reshaped? And how did the societies of Greek cities and royal courts accommodate the overwhelming newfound power of Greek individuals? By developing a custom methodology, this book tries to shed new light on the complex textuality of the period of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander. In four case studies, new readings are presented of Theophrastus Characters and Xenophon's Cyropaedia, but also of the substantial early Hellenistic anecdotal material, as well as the Colossus of Rhodes. The studies are united by an interest in how these texts cast the relationships between individuals and how they constructed various media of interrelation, such as money, friendship, women and the divine. Reading these texts on these terms reveals how values were renegotiated through paradoxes and inverted stories that subtly reshaped the utopias of the 4th century BCE. Overall, the study's hypothesis is that this particular brand of social storytelling contributed to the stabilisation of the nascent Hellenistic world by providing new visions of society capable of accommodating individual power and offering a new sense of control and place
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Überarbeitete Version der Dissertation vom Sommer 2016
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Dissertation Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2016
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783946317142
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3946317146
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Heitmann-Gordon, Henry Accommodating the individual Heidelberg : Verlag Antike, 2017 ISBN 9783946317142
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3946317146
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Diadochen
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Individuum
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Soziale Kontrolle
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Theophrastus v369-v288 Characteres
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Xenophon v430-v354 Cyropaedia
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Diadochen
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Geschichte
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Electronic books
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Author information:
Heitmann-Gordon, Henry
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