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

by Edited by Carol Dougherty , Leslie Kurke

• ISBN13: 9780521815666
• ISBN10: 0521815665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Cultures within Ancient Greek Culture challenges the conventional perception of ancient Greece as the paradigm for unified models of culture. It offers an alternative view of archaic and classical Greece, one in which the contact, conflict and collaboration of a variety of 'sub-cultures' combine to comprise what we now understand as 'Greekness'. This volume argues for the recognition and analysis of cultural contact within Greece, focussing 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'. Through attention to everyday practices and professions, the essays reveal important new ways of conceiving of diversity within Greek culture, ranging from the non-elite culture of athletic trainers to the competing musical cultures at work in fifth-century Athens.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
1 INTRODUCTION: THE CULTURES WITHIN GREEK CULTURE	1	(22)
Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke
SECTION I: THE CIRCULATION OF CULTURES
2 "CULTURE" OR "CULTURES"? HELLENISM IN THE LATE SIXTH CENTURY	23	(12)
Jonathan M. Hall
3 THE ARISTONOTHOS KRATER: COMPETING STORIES OF CONFLICT AND COLLABORATION	35	(22)
Carol Dougherty
4 HYBRIDITY AND THE CULTURES WITHIN GREEK CULTURE	57	(20)
Carla Antonaccio
SECTION II: NEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT AT THE MARGINS: THE CASE OF DELPHI
5 AESOP AND THE CONTESTATION OF DELPHIC AUTHORITY	77	(24)
Leslie Kurke
6 ARISTOCRATIC VICTORY MEMORIALS AND THE ABSENT CHARIOTEER	101	(28)
Nigel Nicholson
7 FRAMING THE GIFT: THE SIPHNIAN TREASURY AT DELPHI AND THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC ART	129	(24)
Richard T. Neer
SECTION III: ATHENS: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERSITY WITHIN THE POLIS
8 THE PIPES ARE BRAWLING: CONCEPTUALIZING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IN ATHENS	153	(28)
Richard P. Martin
9 THE SOUND OF CULTURAL CONFLICT: KRITIAS AND THE CULTURE OF Mousiké IN ATHENS	181	(26)
Peter Wilson
10 BECOMING THE "OTHER": ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES AT ATTIC CEMETERIES	207	(30)
Katarzyna Hagemajer Allen
11 POSTSCRIPT: CULTURE, THIN COHERENCE, AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POLITICS	237	(20)
Josiah Ober
Bibliography	257	(26)
Index	283