TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Syrian identity in the Greco-Roman world
T2  - Greek culture in the Roman world
A1  - Andrade, Nathanael J., kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2505142
AB  - By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.
SN  - 1107012058 sidottu
SN  - 9781107012059 sidottu
KW  - Group identity : History : Syria : To 1500.
KW  - Identity (Psychology) : History : Syria : To 1500.
KW  - Syria : Civilization : Greek influences.
KW  - Syria : Civilization : Roman influences.
KW  - Syria : History : 333 B.C.-634 A.D.
ER  -