Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Accommodating the Individual by Henry Heitmann-Gordon, Dr. Martin Zimmermann How did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Greats world-changing conquest of the Persian Empire? How were old values upheld and reshaped? And how did the societies of Greek cities and royal courts accommodate the overwhelming newfound power of Greek individuals? By developing a custom methodology, this book tries to shed new light on the complex textuality of the period of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander. In four case studies, new readings are presented of Theophrastus Characters and Xenophons Cyropaedia, but also of the substantial early Hellenistic anecdotal material, as well as the Colossus of Rhodes. The studies are united by an interest in how these texts cast the relationships between individuals and how they constructed various media of interrelation, such as money, friendship, women and the divine. Reading these texts on these terms reveals how values were renegotiated through paradoxes and inverted stories that subtly reshaped the utopias of the 4th century BCE. Overall, the studys hypothesis is that this particular brand of social storytelling contributed to the stabilisation of the nascent Hellenistic world by providing new visions of society capable of accommodating individual power and offering a new sense of control and place. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Henry Heitmann-Gordon is Research Assistant (Assistant Professor) of the Alexander von Humbold-Professorship for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Dr. Martin Zimmermann has been Professor of Ancient History at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich since 2002. Studied history and German in Kiel, doctorate in 1990 and habilitation 1997 at the University of TÜbingen. In 2005-2012 he was spokesman for the DFG Priority Program "The Hellenistic Polis as a Way of Life" and for the period 2005-2015 of the Research Training Group "Forms of Prestige in Cultures of Antiquity". His research focuses on ancient historiography, historical geography, forms of ruling representation and the history of literary violence and the history of the city, currently the abandoned cities in ancient civilizations. Zimmermann is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Mommsen Society and the Association of Historians Germany. Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 State of research 1.1.1 King-centric research 1.1.2 Polis-centric research 1.1.3 Systemic analyses: Kings and cities 1.2 Network a conceptual phantom? 1.3 Identity 1.4 A new approach 1.4.1 Why theory? 1.4.2 Organising this study 1.4.3 Sources 1.5 Summary 2. Power as networks: concepts and method 2.1 Approaching power as a network 2.2 Networks of power 2.2.1 Actor-Network-Theory 2.2.2 Quantifying network theory 2.2.3 Harrison White: Narrative struggles for control 2.3 Advanced power concepts 2.4 Power as networks: concepts 2.4.1 Identity 2.4.2 Actor 2.4.3 Interaction 2.4.4 Contingency and trust 2.4.5 A note on legitimacy 2.5. Power as networks: Questions and method 2.5.1 Method 2.5.2 Three final notes 2.6 Summary 3. Individual and collective in Theophrastus Characters 3.1 Individual and collective 3.2 The source material 3.3 Theophrastus Characters and the construction of identity 3.3.1 Polis society 3.3.2 Theophrastus Characters - the work and its world 3.3.2.1 The text and its author 3.3.2.2 Date, context, and world 3.4 Individual and collective - public and private? 3.5 Adding power: Constructing contingency in the Characters 3.5.1 Existential contingency in the Characters 3.5.2 Social contingency in the Characters 3.5.3 Normative contingency in the Characters 3.6 Collective contingency in the Characters: Sanction and meta-control 3.6.1 Collective contingency 3.6.1.1 Love, philia, and trust 3.6.1.2 Religion 3.6.1.3 Money and the economic interaction mode 3.6.1.4 Truth 3.6.1.5 Thematising the system 3.6.2 Contingency caused by undermining collective cohesion and agency 3.7 A network of values 3.7.1 The cognitive network: Meta-control under tension 3.7.2 The social network: Sanction in the Characters 3.7.2.1 Space 3.7.3 The social network dynamics of the Characters 3.8 Conclusions 4. Individual and collective in emergent Hellenistic court society 4.1 Setting the stage: Previous scholarship and source material 4.1.1 The source material 4.2 Xenophons Cyropaedia 4.2.1 Source criticism and previous research 4.2.2 Individual and collective in the Cyropaedia 4.2.2.1 Network boundaries: Public and private? 4.2.3 The construction and control of contingency in the Cyropaedia 4.2.3.1 Existential contingency 4.2.3.2 Social contingency 4.2.4 Control regimes and normative contingency 4.2.4.1 Philia: Love, trust, and friendship 4.2.4.2 Religion and the divine 4.2.4.3 Money and the economic system 4.2.4.4 Truth 4.2.4.5 Space 4.2.5 Conclusion 4.3 Emergent Hellenistic court society as a network of contingency control 4.3.1 Distribution, de-individualisation, mediation 4.3.2 Storytellers and translators 4.4 Conclusion 5. Of monsters and men: Aspects of control between court and city 5.1 Semiotics between court and city 5.2 Harpalos 5.3 Courtesans as city-takers 5.4 Philoi as monsters 5.5 Conclusion: Monsters in the city? 6. Rhodes in the networks of the Diadoch period 6.1 Rhodian society before the siege 6.1.1 Colonisation and identity 6.1.2 Myth 6.1.3 The political relevance of myth 6.1.4 The synoecism 6.1.5 The consolidation of Rhodian domestic politics 6.1.5.1 The Hekatomnids and the Social War (357-355 BC) 6.1.5.2 Trade 6.1.5.3 Rhodes and Alexander 6.1.5.4 Rhodes after Alexanders death 6.2 Rhodes and the Antigonids in the Diadoch Period 6.2.1. The siege of 305/4 BC 6.2.1.1 Source criticism 6.2.2 Rhodes before the siege 6.2.3 Constructing agency during the siege 6.3 The Colossus of Rhodes 6.3.1 Image 6.3.2 Text 6.4. Conclusion 7. Summary and conclusions List of Abbreviations Bibliography Literary Sources Papyri Defixiones Inscriptions Secondary Literature Glossary of terms Indices Index nominum Index nominum modernorum Index rerum Index locorum Details ISBN3946317146 Pages 478 Year 2018 ISBN-10 3946317146 ISBN-13 9783946317142 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2018-02-19 Short Title Accommodating the Individual Series Die Hellenistische Polis Als Lebensform Language English Subtitle Identity and Control after Alexander DEWEY 930 Series Number 8 Imprint Verlag Antike Country of Publication Germany Author Dr. Martin Zimmermann Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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Book Title: Accommodating the Individual
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