Violence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic
Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how
these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the
particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a
period in which warfare became more professionalised, and wars
increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in
political structures that led to political and cultural
experimentation and transformation in which the political and
cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new
political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism.
Finally, and in a similar way, it saw expanded opportunities for
cultural transfer in cities through (re)constructions of urban
space. Violence thus entered the city through external military and
political shocks, as well as within emerging social hierarchies and
civic institutions. Such factors also inflected economic activity,
religious practices and rituals, and the artistic, literary and
philosophical life of the polis.
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