Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Paperback)

Introduction: signification and cultural performance in Roman imperial Syria; Part I. Greek Poleis and the Syrian Ethnos (2nd century BCE?1st century CE): 1. Antiochus IV and the limits of Greekness under the Seleucids (175?63 BCE); 2. The theater of the frontier: local performance, Roman rulers (63?31 BCE); 3. Converging paths: Syrian Greeks of the Roman Near East (31 BCE?CE 73); Part II. Greek Collectives in Syria (1st?3rd centuries CE): 4. The Syrian Ethnos' Greek cities: dispositions and hegemonies (1st?3rd centuries CE); 5. Cities of imperial frontiers (1st?3rd centuries CE); 6. Hadrian and Palmyra: contrasting visions of Greekness (1st?3rd centuries CE); 7. Dura-Europos: changing paradigms for civic Greekness; Part III. Imitation Greeks: Being Greek and Being Other (2nd and 3rd centuries CE): 8. Greeks write Syria: performance and the signification of Greekness; 9. The theater of empire: Lucian, cultural performance, and Roman rule; 10. Syria writes back: Lucian and On the Syrian Goddess; 11. The ascendency of Syrian Greekness and Romanness; Conclusion.