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Biographical note
Sheila L. Ager is a professor of ancient history and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo. Hans Beck is a professor and chair of Greek history at Münster University and adjunct professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.The Hellenistic age witnessed a dynamic increase of cultural fusion and entanglement across the Mediterranean and Eurasian worlds. Amid seismic changes in the world writ large, the regions of central Greece and the Peloponnese have often been considered a cultural space left behind. Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores how various processes impacted the countless small-scale, local communities of the Greek mainland.
Drawing on notions of locality, localism, local tradition, and boundedness in place, Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck delve into some of the main hubs of Hellenistic Greece, from Thessaly to Cape Tainaron. Along with their contributors, they explore how polis and ethnos societies positioned themselves in a swiftly expanding horizon and the meaning-making force of the local. The book reveals how local discourses were energized by local sentiments and, much like an echo chamber, how discourses related back to the community and the place it occupied, prioritizing the local as the critical source of communal orientation. Engaging with debates about cultural connectivity and convergence, Localism in Hellenistic Greece offers new insights into lived experience in ancient Greece.
Preface
Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck
1. Introduction: Localism in Hellenistic Greece
Hans Beck
2. Localism and Environmental History in the Hellenistic Kopaic Basin
Ruben Post
3. Healing a Battlefield: The Local World of Hellenistic Chaironeia
Chandra Giroux
4. The Other Side of the Stone: Local Proxenia in the Hellenistic Euboian Gulf
Alex McAuley
5. Notes on Matrimonial Strategies in Civic Contexts
Sara Saba
6. Local Horizons for the Thessalian Eleutheria
Denver Graninger
7. The Problematic Localism of the Hellenistic Aitolians
Joseph B. Scholten
8. Aligning the Dots: Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding World
Peter Funke
9. The Local Voice of Enmity: Kleomenes III, Sparta, and Argos
Elena Franchi
10. “Sparta is my country”: Competitive Localism in Hellenistic Sparta
Sebastian Scharff
11. Shaping and Reshaping Local Memories in Megalopolis: The Case of the Tyrants Aristodamos and Lydiadas
James Roy
12. Global Activities in a Localized Context: Mercenaries, Proxeny, and the Small Local World of Hellenistic Mani
Chelsea A.M. Gardner
13. Being Syracusan in the Hellenistic World
Mark Thatcher
14. Between the Local and the Global: Intersectional Elites at Antiochia ad Cragum in Roman Rough Cilicia
Tim Howe
15. Afterword: Reflections on Hellenistic Localism
Sheila L. Ager
List of Contributors
Index