Toward a Translocal Elite Culture in the Ptolemaic Empire

Fischer‐Bovet, Christelle

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“…The local populations incorporated the changing reality into their mode of expression and interpreted it from their local perspective. This mode continued while other possibilities opened from the mid-third century [9] (p. 106). This is also reflected in the poems of Meleagros, whose father was a Syrian Greek and his mother in all likelihood a native.…”

Section: Investigation Of the Hellenistic Localist Mode Of Expression And Translocal Culture Conceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After the death of Alexander, the former Persian Empire was divided into several states, which are traditionally called kingdoms since their rulers chose the title "king" (Basileus in Greek) [9] (p. 103). Additionally, the Middle East region became a battlefield where his Diadochoi, the Seleucids and Ptolemies, fought for supremacy.…”

Section: Alexander the Great And The Particularity Of Greco-macedonian Hellenism And The Hellenised World: A Brief Introduction And Scopementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, the Middle East region became a battlefield where his Diadochoi, the Seleucids and Ptolemies, fought for supremacy. Thus, during the worried decades following Alexander's death, Eastern Mediterranean cities developed strategies "to negotiate with the generals who became kings and monopolised military power but not ideological power" [9] (p. 106). Seleucids conquered Mesopotamia in 312 BCE and fought against Antigone in the Ipsos battle in 304 BCE, and they managed to win the battle.…”

Section: Alexander the Great And The Particularity Of Greco-macedonian Hellenism And The Hellenised World: A Brief Introduction And Scopementioning

confidence: 99%

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This paper focuses on the Hellenistic Middle East, especially the age of Ptolemaic Alexandrian and Syrian Seleucid influence. It investigates and clarifies some of the Hellenistic-age historical and archaeological material culture within the Hellenisation and globalisation conceptions. Furthermore, it suggests that by reviewing the context of the local socio-cultural identities in the Hellenistic Oikoumene, mainly based on the lingua franca about local identity and how the local identity was expressed on coinage during Hellenistic times, many related insights issues can be revealed. In addition, it also attempts to discuss and reveal aspects of the cultural sharing achievements in Hellenistic art, architecture, and urban built environment planning. Finally, how did Eastern Hellenistic cities manage to benefit from the process of Hellenistic globalisation and localisation/globalisation while minimising identity risks? The focus is on the transnational socio-cultural and economic area of Ptolemaic Alexandria, the centre of the post-Classical Greek world, and the Syrian Seleucid influence. As an investment, mass migration and the transfer of goods, culture, and ideas increasingly transformed these Middle Eastern cities and shaped their translocal culture conception, local socio-cultural identities, cultural sharing, art and architecture edifice forms, and spatial patterns in the Hellenistic period. One of the main contributions and significance of this study is to continue the dialogue of how non-Greek influence in Hellenistic times impacted an area that has been traditionally seen as unaffected or minimally affected by years under foreign rule. This also sheds new light on some Greco-Macedonian topics not sufficiently debated in the Oikoumene discussion dialogue. These two aspects would furthermore contribute to better understanding and accepting the neglected role of the contribution of non-Greek culture to Greek achievements, as well as how the local non-Greek customs of the indigenous peoples of the Ptolemy and Seleucid kingdoms would affect how they assimilated Greco-Macedonian practices, and how the vision of Alexander the Great and Hellenisation worked in the different territories of these two kingdoms.

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Section: Investigation Of the Hellenistic Localist Mode Of Expression And Translocal Culture Conceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Alexander the Great And The Particularity Of Greco-macedonian Hellenism And The Hellenised World: A Brief Introduction And Scopementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Alexander the Great And The Particularity Of Greco-macedonian Hellenism And The Hellenised World: A Brief Introduction And Scopementioning

confidence: 99%

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Kings and Elites in an Intercultural Tradition: From Diodorus to the Egyptian Temples

Caneva¹

2019

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The study of Hellenistic Egypt, as it has been jointly carried out by Hellenists and Egyptologists in recent decades, is a remarkable example of the efficacy of interdisciplinary endeavours bringing together different media and cultural traditions. Based on the premises of these studies in social and cultural history, this article focuses on a neglected aspect of the encounters between the Graeco-Macedonian and Egyptian elites in the Ptolemaic kingdom: the role played by self-stylization in cultural encounters in general and, more precisely, in intercultural negotiations for legitimacy and privilege. The focus will be on the strategy by which one party – in this case, the Egyptian elite – could consciously shape a representation of its traditions and values that was meant to gain more prestige and contractual power in diplomatic exchanges with the Ptolemaic establishment.

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Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East

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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 and historical memories of prior periods, as well as emergent trans-regional Hellenistic political and cultural idioms. The book 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.

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Toward a Translocal Elite Culture in the Ptolemaic Empire

Cited by 28 publications

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Insights on Eastern Hellenistic Historical and Archaeological Material Culture of the Oikoumene: Globalisation and Local Socio-Cultural Identities

Insights on Eastern Hellenistic Historical and Archaeological Material Culture of the Oikoumene: Globalisation and Local Socio-Cultural Identities

Kings and Elites in an Intercultural Tradition: From Diodorus to the Egyptian Temples

Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East

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