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Anti-Athenian Attitudes across the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
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Artikel-Nr:
9781910589687
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.12.2016
Seiten:
275
Autor:
Katerina Meidani
eBook Typ:
PDF
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others -- whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans -- saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. The 12 new studies in this volume, by a distinguished international cast, trace negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. They challenge the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and cast light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.
Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others -- whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans -- saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. The 12 new studies in this volume, by a distinguished international cast, trace negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. They challenge the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and cast light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.
Thomas J. Figueira (Rutgers) Aigina: Island as Paradigm and Counter-ParadigmAnton Powell (Swansea) Aphaia against Athena: How Aggressive was Aigina towards Athens?Dominique Lenfant (Strasbourg) The Allies' Viewpoint on the Athenian Empire: the Evidence of Plutarch's LivesLynette Mitchell (Exeter) Anti-Athenian Attitudes in 5th-Century Sicily?John K. Davies (Liverpool) Theopompos on Athenian Policies and PoliticiansMartin Dreher (Magdeburg) Anti-Athenian Attitudes and the Second Athenian ConfederacyChristy Constantakopoulou (London) Local History and 4th-Century Delian Reactions to Athenian ImperialismKostas Buraselis (Athens) In the Shadow of Pydna: Incorrigible Athens as an Opportunity for the AchaeansIoanna Kralli (Ionian) The Image of Athens in the Hellenistic World: To Sneer or to Revere?Maria Plastira-Valkanou (Thessaloniki) The Image of Athenians in the Greek EpigramNikos Giannakopoulos (Thessaloniki) Condemning the Athenian past, Rejecting the Athenian Present: Aspects of Anti-Athenian Discourses under the Early Roman PrincipateDorothy Figueira (Georgia) Reading Greece. Travel Narratives, Aesthetic Sensibilities and the Aiginetan Marbles