Local knowledge and microidentities in the imperial Greek world /

• Other Authors: Whitmarsh, Tim (επιμελητής.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Series: Greek culture in the Roman world.
• Subjects: Μειονότητες > Ελλάδα > Εθνική ταυτότητα.; Ελλάδα > Εθνοτικές σχέσεις.; Ελλάδα > Πολιτισμός > Μέχρι το 146 π.Χ.

"This volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates: in some cases it was complementary with imper...

Table 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. Making 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.