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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Hardcover, New)
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Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Hardcover, New)
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
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By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this
book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented
expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian
identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek
communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to
ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the
performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's
inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural
origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek,
Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways.
While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the
book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly
shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many
assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of
Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman
Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.
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