Fabric of Hellenism

Ewen Bowie was Leventis Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh in 2023, and E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1965 to 2007. Calum Maciver is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh

The latest ‘Leventis’ is a fantastically rich and informative collection on Hellenism and the material ‘fabric’ of the early Roman period, authored by experts in several fields and held together by first-rate editing. Students of the literature and the history of this era will enjoy it and learn from it enormously.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors AbbreviationsPart I: Introduction1. Introduction.Ewen Bowie Part II: The Hellenistic Prequel2. Hellenistic Civic Identities: Evolving Intersections of Classical Athens, Paideia, and DemocracyBen Gray 3. Acraephia and its Material Past in the Ptoia of the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial PeriodParaskevi MartzavouPart III: Ephebes and Festivals4. Religious Visibility According to Ancestral Custom: Greek Festive Traditions, Poetic, Ritual and OtherAthena Kavoulaki 5. Gymnasia, Ephebates, and Hellenic Cultural Identity in Imperial AchaeaMatthew Evans 6. Celebrating Pythian Games: Hellenism and Local Identity in Civic Festivals of Asia MinorZahra NewbyPart IV: The Claudii Attici7. Claudius Atticus, Father of Herodes, and the Spartan Agōgē: New EvidenceTony Spawforth 8. Bodies, Landscape, and Entanglement: Reading Herodes Atticus’ Marathonian Monuments through IG ii2 3606Alexia Petsalis-DiomidisPart V: The Perspectives of Philosophers, Sophists and Litterateurs9. Eternal City? Delphi, Hellenism, and the Civic in PlutarchJudith Mossman10. Defining Hellenism: the Ideal Greek City According to Dio and PlutarchThomas Schmidt 11. The Pride of Being Hellenic in Prusa ad Olympum and Rhodes.Anne Gangloff 12. The Fabric of Hellenic Civic Life in Alexandria According to Strabo, Dio of Prusa and PlutarchLucia Athanassaki 13. Questioning Greek Civic Identity at the Imperial Symposium: Plutarch and AthenaeusKaterina Oikonomopoulou 14. Aelius Aristides on Smyrna and RhodesMichael Trapp 15. Imperial Cyzicus: Strabo, Tryphaena, AristidesJanet Downie 16. Festival Athletics in the Imagines of the Elder PhilostratusJaś Elsner and Michael Squire 17. Hellenic Culture and Identity in the Epistles and Other ‘Minor’ works of the Philostratean CorpusOwen Hodkinson 18. Attic Landscapes Re-imagined: Alciphron’s Letters and the City-praise Tradition.Jason KönigPart VI :Hellenic Traditions in Action19. The Tomb and Library of Celsus at Ephesus: Converting Roman Power into Local PrivilegeR. R. R. Smith20. Communicating by Coinage: Money TalksEwen BowiePart VII: Greek Novels21. Aphrodisias, Latin Poetry, and the Early Greek Novels: The Case of the Ninus and Chione RomancesDaniel Jolowicz 22. The Elite, the Dēmos, and the Balance of Power in the Cities of the Ancient Greek Novels (ca. first-third centuries AD)Sophie Lalanne Part VIII: Outside the Ivory Towers23. Seriously pederastic: The politics of pederasty in Roman Greece.Tim Whitmarsh 24. The Fabric of Hellenism and Popular Culture in the Imperial Greek City: Materiality and ResistanceLucy Grig 25. Christian Greek Literature in the Tradition of Hellenic Paideia in the Mid-third CenturyStephen Mitchell26. Thinking about the Future with Greek CitiesEstelle Strazdins Bibliography Index