Hellenism in the East
Author | : Amélie Kuhrt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Amélie Kuhrt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amélie Kuhrt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520060548 |
Author | : Ladislav Stančo |
Publisher | : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 8024620456 |
This book focuses on the fate of the Greek mythological themes, divine and heroic figures, far in the East, primarily in the area of ancient Gandhara and Bactria (today in Uzbekistan). In alphabetic order, it covers primary iconographic schemes, which the art of these areas borrowed from the Hellenistic Mediterranean. We can compare how individual typical depictions of Greek deities changed and accommodated the taste and ideas of the local populace over the centuries. Aside from this, many of the originally Greek mythological characters, including their typical attributes, became, as this book clearly shows, the basis for images of various local Iranian, Indian and other deities.
Author | : Hannah Cotton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2009-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521875811 |
This book considers how languages, peoples and cultures in the Near East interacted over the millennium between Alexander and Muhammad.
Author | : Michael Avi-Yonah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yannis Papadogiannakis |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
ISBN | : 9780674060678 |
This book--the first full-length study of Theodoret's Therapeutic for Hellenic Maladies--examines Theodoret's arguments against Greek religion, philosophy, and culture. Its analysis of the interaction between Hellenism and early Christian culture offers insights into the broader late Roman and early Byzantine world in the fifth century.
Author | : Erich S. Gruen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2002-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520235061 |
In these fictive creations, Jewish writers reinvented their own past, offering us vital insights into Jewish self-perception.
Author | : Boris Chrubasik |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 019252819X |
Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean offers a timely re-examination of the relationship between Greek and non-Greek cultures in this region between 400 BCE and 250 CE. The conquests of Alexander the Great and his Successors not only radically reshaped the political landscape, but also significantly accelerated cultural change: in recent decades there has been an important historiographical emphasis on the study of the non-Greek cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean, but less focus on how Greek cultural elements became increasingly visible. Although the process of cross-cultural interaction differed greatly across Asia Minor, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia, the same overarching questions apply: why did the non-Greek communities of the Eastern Mediterranean engage so closely with Greek cultural forms as well as political practices, and how did this engagement translate into their daily lives? In exploring the versatility and adaptability of Greek political structures, such as the polis, and the ways in which Greek and non-Greek cultures interacted in fields such as medicine, literature, and art, the essays in this volume aim to provide new insight into these questions. At the same time, they prompt a re-interrogation of the process of Hellenization, exploring whether it is still a useful concept for explaining and understanding the dynamics of cultural exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean of this period.
Author | : Rachel Mairs |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2016-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520292464 |
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.
Author | : Jonathan R. W. Prag |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107032423 |
Pathbreaking essays challenging the traditional focus on the eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period and on Rome in the West.