The Cultures within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration

by Edited by Carol Dougherty , Leslie Kurke

• ISBN13: 9780521285193
• ISBN10: 0521285194
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Challenging the conventional perception of ancient Greece as the paradigm for unified models of culture, this study offers an alternative view of archaic and classical Greece. It is one in which the contact, conflict and collaboration of a variety of "subcultures" combine to comprise what we now understand as "Greekness." The volume argues for the recognition and analysis of cultural contact within Greece, focusing on the micromechanics of cultural exchange, the permeability of cultural boundaries, and the significance of Delphi's geographically marginal, yet symbolically central, location as an "internal contact zone."

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Circulation of Cultures

'Culture' of 'cultures'?: Hellenism in the late-sixth century

The Aristonothos Krater: competing stories of conflict and collaboration

Hybridity and the cultures within Greek culture

Negotiation and Conflict at the Margins: The Case of Delphi

Aesop and the contestation of Delphic authority

Aristocratic victory memorials and the absent charioteer

Framing and gift: the Siphnian treasury at Delphi and the politics of public art

Athens: Convergences and Diversity within the Polis

The pipes are brawling: conceptualizing musical performance in archaic Athens

The sound of cultural conflict: Kritias and the culture of Mousike in Athens

Becoming the 'other': attitudes and practices at Attic cemeteries Katarzyna

Postscript: culture, thin coherence, and the persistence of politics

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