Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East

Paul J. Kosmin, Ian S. Moyer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286347-8 (ISBN)

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This volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. Featuring specialists in Judaea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor, in an effort to trace comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of resistance.

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.

Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East is organized into three parts. The first part investigates the Great Theban Revolt and the Maccabean Revolt, the central cases for large, organized, and prolonged military uprisings against the Hellenistic kingdoms. The second part examines the full gamut of indigenous self-assertion and resistant action, including theologies of monarchic inadequacy, patterns of historical periodization and textual interpretation, and claims to sites of authority. The volume's final part turns to the more ambiguous assertions of local autonomy and identity that emerge in the frontier regions that slipped in and out of the grasp of the great Hellenistic powers.

Paul J. Kosmin read Ancient and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, and took his PhD in Ancient History at Harvard University, where he is now Philip J. King Professor of Ancient History. The core of his work to date has focused on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the east Mediterranean and west Asia in the Hellenistic period. Ian S. Moyer studied Classics at the University of Victoria, and completed his PhD in the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. He now teaches in the History Department at the University of Michigan, and his research traces political, cultural, and intellectual interactions between Egypt and the ancient Greek world.

Preface
Paul J. Kosmin and Ian S. Moyer: Introduction
Part I. The Big Events: Pattern and Crisis.
1: Erich Gruen: The Maccabean Model: Resistance or Adjustment?
2: Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse: The 'Great Theban Revolt', 206-186 BCE
Part II. The Grounds for Resistance.
3: Johannes Haubold: Memory and Resistance in the Seleucid World: The Case of Babylon
4: Kathryn Stevens: 'After him a king will arise': Framing Resistance in Seleucid Babylonia
5: Sylvie Honigman: Diverging Memories, Not Resistance Literature: The Maccabean Crisis in the Animal Apocalypse and 1 and 2 Maccabees
6: Ian S. Moyer: Revolts, Resistance, and the Materiality of the Moral Order in Ptolemaic Egypt
Part III. The Edges of Resistance.
7: Laurent Capdetrey: An Impossible Resistance? Anatolian Populations, Ethnicity, and Greek Powers in Asia Minor during the Second Century BCE
8: Daniel Tober: 'Herakles is stronger, Seleukos': Local History and Local Resistance in Pontic Herakleia
9: Rachel Mairs: Central Asian Challenges to Seleucid Authority: Synchronism, Correlation, and Causation as Historiographical Devices in Justin's Epitome of Trogus
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 224 mm
Gewicht	514 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-286347-9 / 0192863479
ISBN-13	978-0-19-286347-8 / 9780192863478
Zustand	Neuware