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Menschen, die weder Griechen noch Römer waren, wurden im Imperium Romanum häufig abwertend als Barbaren betrachtet. Demgegenüber galt die griechisch-römische Doppelkultur als ,die Zivilisation an sich'. Was aber, wenn Barbaren beschlossen, Griechisch oder Latein zu lernen, sich wie Griechen oder Römer zu verhalten, deren Aussehen anzunehmen? Eben danach fragt diese Studie. Es wird mithin der Versuch unternommen, für die Zeit zwischen der späten Römischen Republik und der Ära der severischen Kaiser auf möglichst breiter Grundlage zu untersuchen, wie solche Wandlungsprozesse in den Schriftquellen kommuniziert und bewertet wurden. Damit trägt dieses Buch insbesondere zur seit Jahrzehnten schwelenden Debatte darüber bei, inwieweit es im Römischen Reich sozialen Druck zur kulturellen Anpassung gegeben habe - oder sogar so etwas wie eine entsprechende Kulturpolitik. Das Buch richtet sich so nicht nur an ein althistorisches Fachpublikum, sondern ebenso an Historiker/-innen anderer Epochen, Altertumswissenschaftler/-innen anderer Disziplinen sowie Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftler/-innen. Wegen des hochaktuellen Themas - der Debatte um kulturelle Anpassung bzw. Integration - kann es zugleich aber auch für eine breitere Öffentlichkeit von Interesse sein. The Imperium Romanum was dominated by Roman-Latin and Greek language and culture. Others were - often derogatorily - seen as barbarian. But what did Romans think of Barbarians appropriating Greek-Roman culture? How did this kind of cultural transformation in the multicultural Roman state manifest and how was it negotiated? This book delves into these pertinent and highly topical questions.

cultural assimilation. --- hellenization. --- integration. --- romanization.

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Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existence as a unique people. Here Loring Danforth examines the Macedonian conflict in light of contemporary theoretical work on ethnic nationalism, the construction of national identities and cultures, the invention of tradition, and the role of the state in the process of building a nation. The conflict is set in the broader context of Balkan history and in the more narrow context of the recent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Danforth focuses on the transnational dimension of the "global cultural war" taking place between Greeks and Macedonians both in the Balkans and in the diaspora. He analyzes two issues in particular: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the newly independent Republic of Macedonia. The book concludes with a detailed analysis of the construction of identity at an individual level among immigrants from northern Greece who have settled in Australia, where multiculturalism is an official policy. People from the same villages, members of the same families, living in the northern suburbs of Melbourne have adopted different national identities.

Immigrants --- Grecs --- Macedoniens --- Nationalisme --- Greeks --- Macedonians --- Nationalism --- Macedoine (Republique) --- Grece --- Australie --- Macedoine --- Greece. --- Europe --- Australia. --- Macedonia --- Australia --- Greece --- Relations interethniques. --- Nom. --- Name. --- Ethnic relations. --- Alexander the Great. --- Balkan wars. --- Barth, Fredrik. --- Bourdieu, Pierre. --- Cyril and Methodius. --- European Commission on Human Rights. --- European Parliament. --- Grkoman. --- Gypsies. --- Hellenization. --- Ilinden. --- Jupp, James. --- Karamanlis, Constantine. --- Kofos, Evangelos. --- Linnekin, Jocelyn. --- Makedhoniki Zoi. --- Makedonija. --- Ohrid. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Patriarchate. --- Radin, Michael. --- Serbia. --- Slavic speakers. --- Tito (Josip Broz). --- United Macedonians. --- United Nations. --- VMRO. --- Vergina. --- Vlachs. --- World Macedonian Congress. --- Yugoslavia. --- archaeology. --- assimilation. --- child refugees. --- citizenship. --- diaspora. --- dopii. --- ethnicity. --- exchange of populations. --- flags. --- folklore. --- globalization. --- homeland. --- human rights. --- immigration. --- multiculturalism. --- nation-states. --- nationalism. --- political refugees. --- race. --- soccer teams. --- transnationalism.

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This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Schwartz begins by arguing that the distinctiveness of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman periods was the product of generally prevailing imperial tolerance. From around 70 C.E. to the mid-fourth century, with failed revolts and the alluring cultural norms of the High Roman Empire, Judaism all but disintegrated. However, late in the Roman Empire, the Christianized state played a decisive role in ''re-Judaizing'' the Jews. The state gradually excluded them from society while supporting their leaders and recognizing their local communities. It was thus in Late Antiquity that the synagogue-centered community became prevalent among the Jews, that there re-emerged a distinctively Jewish art and literature--laying the foundations for Judaism as we know it today. Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in romantic notions about Jewish fortitude. Integrating material relics and literature while setting the Jews in their eastern Mediterranean context, it addresses the complex and varied consequences of imperialism on this vast period of Jewish history more ambitiously than ever before. Imperialism in Jewish Society will be widely read and much debated.

Jews --- Judaism --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- Civilization --- Greek influences. --- History --- Palestine --- Aelia Capitolina. --- Ancient Judaism (book). --- Archaeology. --- Avodah Zarah. --- Bar Kokhba revolt. --- Beit She'an. --- Book of Deuteronomy. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Capernaum. --- Cathedra. --- Christian. --- Christianity. --- Christianization. --- Church Fathers. --- Early Period. --- Eastern Mediterranean. --- Edom. --- Egypt (Roman province). --- Epigraphy. --- Euergetism. --- Exegesis. --- First Jewish–Roman War. --- Galilean. --- Gentile. --- God. --- Grandee. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hellenistic period. --- Hellenization. --- Herodian. --- Iconography. --- Ideology. --- Idolatry. --- Israel. --- Israelites. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish Palestinian Aramaic. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish literature. --- Jewish prayer. --- Jewish religious movements. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judaization. --- Judea (Roman province). --- Kohen. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leiden. --- Levine. --- Libanius. --- Lifshitz. --- Literature. --- Maccabean Revolt. --- Menorah (Temple). --- Mishnah. --- Narrative. --- Near East. --- Paganism. --- Palestinian Jews. --- Persecution. --- Pharisees. --- Piyyut. --- Ptolemaic Kingdom. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Religion. --- Religiosity. --- Rhetoric. --- Rite. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Government. --- Samaritans. --- Scythopolis (see). --- Second Temple period. --- Second Temple. --- Sect. --- Sefer (Hebrew). --- Seleucid Empire. --- Seminar. --- Sepphoris. --- Shabbat. --- Synagogue. --- Syria Palaestina. --- Tax. --- Temple in Jerusalem. --- Theology. --- Tiberias. --- Torah reading. --- Torah study. --- Torah. --- Tosefta. --- Tractate. --- Upper Galilee. --- Urban culture. --- Writing. --- Yohanan.

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In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. Roman Eyes is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.

Arts, Classical. --- Visual perception. --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Roman aesthetics --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Classical arts --- Psychological aspects --- Adoration. --- Aelius Aristides. --- Aeschylus. --- Agalmatophilia. --- Anchises. --- Ancient Greek art. --- Ancient Rome. --- Anecdote. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Apuleius. --- Art history. --- Atargatis. --- Bathing. --- Bibliography. --- Capitoline Museums. --- Castration. --- Christian apologetics. --- Conflation. --- Cooling. --- Cult image. --- Cupid and Psyche. --- De Dea Syria. --- Deity. --- Diana and Actaeon. --- Drapery. --- Ekphrasis. --- Epigram. --- Epithet. --- Eroticism. --- Genre. --- Greco-Roman world. --- H II region. --- Hagiography. --- Hare Krishna (mantra). --- Harpocrates. --- Hellenization. --- Hierapolis. --- Hieros gamos. --- Hydrogen line. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- In the Water. --- Indulgence. --- Initiation. --- Ionic Greek. --- Ionization. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leucippe and Clitophon. --- Libation. --- Mimesis. --- Narrative logic. --- Narrative. --- Neo-Attic. --- Number density. --- Oculus. --- Our Choice. --- Parody. --- Philostratus. --- Photon. --- Piety. --- Poetry. --- Polytheism. --- Posture (psychology). --- Praxiteles. --- Procession. --- Pubic hair. --- Putto. --- Queen of Heaven. --- Reionization. --- Religion and sexuality. --- Religious image. --- Rite. --- Roman art. --- Satire. --- Sculpture. --- Second Sophistic. --- Self-consciousness. --- Sensibility. --- Serapis. --- Sexual intercourse. --- Sincerity. --- Social reality. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophistication. --- Star formation. --- Subjectivity. --- Temperature. --- The Golden Ass. --- The Last Sentence. --- The Sea Monster. --- Theatricality. --- Venus Anadyomene. --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Verisimilitude. --- Viewing (funeral). --- Voluptas. --- Voyeurism. --- Vulva. --- Writing. --- Zeuxis. --- Romans --- Aesthetics. --- Religious life.