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    Localism in Hellenistic Greece

    Sheila L. Ager (Edited by), Hans Beck (Edited by)

    9781487548315

    Hardback, published 5 January 2024

    416 pages, 1 b&w illustration, 2 b&w maps
    23.5 x 15.9 x 3.7 cm, 0.72 kg

    The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores how various processes impacted the countless small-scale, local communities of the Greek mainland.

    Drawing on notions of locality, localism, local tradition, and boundedness in place, Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck delve into some of the main hubs of Hellenistic Greece, from Thessaly to Cape Tainaron. Along with their contributors, they explore how polis and ethnos societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding horizon and the meaning-making force of the local. The book reveals how local discourses were energized by local sentiments and, much like an echo chamber, how discourses related back to the community and the place it occupied, prioritizing the local as the critical source of communal orientation. Engaging with debates about cultural connectivity and convergence, Localism in Hellenistic Greece offers new insights into lived experience in ancient Greece.

    Preface 
    Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck

    1. Introduction: Localism in Hellenistic Greece
    Hans Beck

    2. Localism and Environmental History in the Hellenistic Kopaic Basin
    Ruben Post

    3. Healing a Battlefield: The Local World of Hellenistic Chaironeia
    Chandra Giroux

    4. The Other Side of the Stone: Local Proxenia in the Hellenistic Euboian Gulf
    Alex McAuley

    5. Notes on Matrimonial Strategies in Civic Contexts
    Sara Saba

    6. Local Horizons for the Thessalian Eleutheria
    Denver Graninger

    7. The Problematic Localism of the Hellenistic Aitolians
    Joseph B. Scholten

    8. Aligning the Dots: Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding World
    Peter Funke

    9. The Local Voice of Enmity: Kleomenes III, Sparta, and Argos
    Elena Franchi

    10. "Sparta is my country": Competitive Localism in Hellenistic Sparta
    Sebastian Scharff

    11. Shaping and Reshaping Local Memories in Megalopolis: The Case of the Tyrants Aristodamos and Lydiadas
    James Roy

    12. Global Activities in a Localized Context: Mercenaries, Proxeny, and the Small Local World of Hellenistic Mani
    Chelsea A.M. Gardner

    13. Being Syracusan in the Hellenistic World
    Mark Thatcher

    14. Between the Local and the Global: Intersectional Elites at Antiochia ad Cragum in Roman Rough Cilicia
    Tim Howe

    15. Afterword: Reflections on Hellenistic Localism 
    Sheila L. Ager

    List of Contributors

    Index
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