art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

ISBN: PB: 9780226711485

ISBN: HB: 9780226711348

University of Chicago Press

June 2020

304 pp.

22.8x15.2 cm

17 halftones, 2 line drawings

PB:
£32,00
QTY:
HB:
£96,00
QTY:

Categories:

Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State

Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. While the local is often seen as less significant than the global stage of politics, religion, and culture, localism, argues historian Hans Beck has had a pervasive influence on communal experience in a world of fast-paced change. Far from existing as outliers, citizens in these communities were deeply concerned with maintaining local identity, commercial freedom, distinct religious cults, and much more. Beyond these cultural identifiers, there lay a deeper concept of the local that guided polis societies in their contact with a rapidly expanding world. Drawing on a staggering range of materials­­ – including texts by both known and obscure writers, numismatics, pottery analysis, and archeological records – Beck develops fine-grained case studies that illustrate the significance of the local experience. "Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State" builds bridges across disciplines and ideas within the humanities and shows how looking back at the history of Greek localism is important not only in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, but also in today's conversations about globalism, networks, and migration.  

About the Author

Hans Beck is professor and chair of Greek history at the University of Munster, adjunct professor in the faculty of arts at McGill University in Montreal, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of many books, including "A Companion to Ancient Greek Government"; with Peter Funke, "Federalism in Greek Antiquity"; and, with Kostas Buraselis and Alex McAuley, "Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism".