Accommodating the Individual
How did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's 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 overwhel...
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| description | How did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's 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 Xenophon's 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 study's 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-358682025-07-31T09:27:55Z Accommodating the Individual Heitmann-Gordon, Henry History Europe Renaissance thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history How did the Greeks respond to the experiences of uncertainty that they so acutely made in the aftermath of Alexander the Great's 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 Xenophon's 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 study's 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. 2021-02-10T14:30:25Z 2021-02-10T14:30:25Z 2020-12-15T14:03:18Z 2017 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43850 9783946317838 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35868 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43850/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43850/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43850/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43850/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43850/1/external_content.pdf Brill Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 Knowledge Unlatched 9783946317838 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht open access |
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