Ebook: Syrian identity in the Greco-Roman world
Author: Andrade Nathanael J.
- Tags: Syria -- History -- 333 B C -634 A D, Identity (Psychology) -- Syria -- History -- To 1500, Group identity -- Syria -- History -- To 1500, Syria -- Civilization -- Greek influences, Syria -- Civilization -- Roman influences, HISTORY -- Ancient -- General, Civilization -- Greek influences, Civilization -- Roman influences, Group identity, Identity (Psychology), Syria
- Series: Greek culture in the Roman world
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Language: English
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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 Read more...