Centre and Periphery in the Hellenistic World

Centre and Periphery in the Hellenistic World
ISBN-10
8772883170
ISBN-13
9788772883175
Category
History / Ancient / Greece
Pages
357
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Aarhus University Press
Authors
Jan Zahle, Per Bilde, Lise Hannestad

Description

The fifteen papers in this volume cover a wide range of centre-periphery related studies, from the archaeology and history of the period to investigations into the intellectual millieux and religious thoughts and their contexts. Contributors include: L Hannestad (Greeks and Celts: The creation of a myth); F Kaul (The Gundestrup cauldron); B Cunliffe (Iberia and the Mediterranean); K Randsborg (Greek peripheries and barbarian centres); J E Skydsgaard (The Greeks in southern Russia); V Gabrielsen (Rhodes and Rome after the Third Macedonian War); S Alcock (Surveying the peripheries of the Hellenistic world); T Bekker-Nielsen (Centres and road networks in Cyprus); I Nielsen (Italic palaces); A Invernizzi (Centre and periphery in Seleucid Asia); G Shipley (World-systems analysis and the `Hellenistic' world); P Bilde (Jesus and Paul and religious innovation).

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