Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World

by Edited by Tim Whitmarsh

• ISBN13: 9780521761468
• ISBN10: 0521761468
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 imperial objectives, but in others tension can be discerned. The volume as a whole seeks to add texture and nuance to the existing literature on Greek identity, which has tended in recent years to emphasise the umbrella category of the Greek, to the detriment of specific polis and regional identities. It also contributes to the growing literature on the Romanisation of provinces, by emphasising the dialogue between a region's self-identification as a distinct space and its self-awareness as a component of the centrally-governed empire.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on the contributors	p. viii
Editor's note	p. x
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Thinking local	p. 1
Imperial identities	p. 17
What is local identity? The politics of cultural mapping	p. 46
Europa's sons: Roman perceptions of Cretan identity	p. 69
The Ionians of Paphlagonia	p. 86
Ancestry and identity in the Roman empire	p. 111
Making space for bicultural identity: Herodes Atticus commemorates Regilla	p. 125
Being Termessian: local knowledge and identity politics in a Pisidian city	p. 163
Afterword: the local and the global in the Graeco-Roman east	p. 189
References	p. 201
Index	p. 225
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