Cultures of resistance in the Hellenistic East / edited by Paul J. Kosmin and Ian S. Moyer.
| Other author | Kosmin, Paul J., 1984- |
| Other author | Moyer, Ian S., 1971- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. |
| Description | xi, 305 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The big events : pattern and crisis -- The Maccabean Model : Resistance or Adjustment? / Erich S. Gruen -- The 'Great Theban Revolt', 206-186 BCE / Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse -- The grounds for resistence -- Memory and Resistance in the Seleucid World : The Case of Babylon / Johannes Haubold -- 'After Him a King Will Arise' : Framing Resistance in Seleucid Babylonia / Kathryn Stevens -- Diverging Memories, Not Resistance Literature : The Maccabean Crisis in the Animal Apocalypse and 1 and 2 Maccabees / Sylvie Honigman -- Revolts, Resistance, and the Materiality of the Moral Order in Ptolemaic Egypt / Ian S. Moyer -- The edges of resistance -- An Impossible Resistance? Anatolian Populations, Ethnicity, and Greek Powers in Asia Minor during the Second Century / Laurent Capdetrey -- 'Herakles is stronger, Seleucus' : Local History and Local Resistance in Pontic Herakleia / Daniel Tober -- Central Asian Challenges to Seleucid Authority : Synchronism, Correlation, and Causation as Historiographical Devices in Justin's Epitome of Trogus / Rachel Mairs. |
| Abstract | "This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world - Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor - in an effort to trace comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of resistance. The volume seeks to unite the currently dominant social-scientific orientation to ancient resistance and revolt with perspectives, often coming from religious studies, that are more attentive to local cultural, religious, and moral frameworks. In re-assessing these frameworks, contributors move beyond Greek/non-Greek binaries to examine resistance as complex and entangled: acts and articulations of resistance are not purely nativistic or 'nationalist', but conditioned by local traditions of government, historical memories of prior periods, as well as emergent transregional Hellenistic political and cultural idioms." -- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "This volume represents the final results of 'The Maccabean Moment' conference held 18-20 January 2016 at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC." -- Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-294) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Kosmin, Paul J. Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022 9780192678270 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022931931 |
| ISBN | 0192863479 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780192863478 (hardcover) |