TY - BOOK AU - Stavrianopoulou,Eftychia TI - Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period: narrations, practices, and images T2 - Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, AV - DF235.4 .S55 2013eb U1 - 938/.08 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Greece KW - History KW - Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C KW - Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Change and continuity -- Deja vu? visual culture in western Asia Minor at the beginning of Hellenistic rule / Deniz Kaptan -- The image of the city in Hellenistic Babylonia / Heather D. Baker -- Babylonian, Macedonian, king of the world: the Antiochos cylinder from Borsippa and Seleukid imperial integration / Rolf Strootman -- A religious continuity between the dynastic and Ptolemaic periods? self-presentation and identity of Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCR) / Gilles Gorre -- Shifting conceptions of the divine: Sarapis as part of Ptolemaic Egypt's social imaginary / Eleni Fassa -- Modes of cultural appropriation -- Aretalogies / Andrea Jordens -- Hellenistic world(s) and the elusive concept of 'Greekness' / Eftychia Stavrianopoulou -- 'Jews as the best of all Greeks': cultural competition in the literary works of Alexandrian Judaeans of the Hellenistic period / Sylvie Honigman -- Political institutions and the Lykian and Karian language in the process of Hellenization between the Achaemenids and the early Diadochi / Christian Marek -- Interculturality in image and cult in the Hellenistic east: Tyrian Melqart revisited / Jessica L. Nitschke -- The spread of Greek polis institutions in Hellenistic Cappadocia and the peer polity interaction model / Christoph Michels -- Shifting worldviews -- Ceremonies, athletics and the city: some remarks on the social imaginary of the Greek city of the Hellenistic period / Onno van Nijf -- The view from the old world: contemporary perspectives on Hellenistic culture / Andrew Erskine -- The Hellenistic far east: from the oikoumene to the community / Rachel Mairs -- Epilogue: Alexander the Great and Iskander dhu'l-Qarnayn: memory, myth and representation of a conqueror from Iran to south east India through the eyes of travel literature / Omar Coloru UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10764674 ER -