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020			_a9780511997808 (ebook)
020			_z9781107012059 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aDS96.2 _b.A63 2013
082	0	0	_a939.4/305 _223
100	1		_aAndrade, Nathanael J., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSyrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World / _cNathanael J. Andrade.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (444 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aGreek Culture in the Roman World
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aBy 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107012059
830		0	_aGreek Culture in the Roman World.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511997808
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37657 _d37657