Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World: Themes and Questions 3
6. Part One: Intercultural Poetics and Identity
7. Introduction 17
8. 1. ‘If I Am from Syria – So What?’: Meleager’s Cosmopoetics 19
9. 2. Invective from the Cultural Periphery: The Case of Hermeias of Kourion 33
10. 3. Genre and Ethnicity in the Epigrams of Meleager 47
11. Part Two: On the Margins? Ethnicity and Hellenicity
12. Introduction 71
13. 4. Belonging and Isolation in Central Anatolia: The Galatians in the Graeco- Roman World 73
14. 5. The Importance of Being Aitolian 96
15. 6. Democracy in the Hellenistic World 111
16. Part Three: Symploke: Mediterranean Systems and Networks
17. Introduction 129
18. 7. Polybios and International Systems Theory 131
19. 8. Networks in the Hellenistic Economy 143
20. 9. Diplomacy and the Integration of the Hasmonean State 155
21. Part Four: Alexandria: The Invention of a City
22. Introduction 167
23. 10. Founding Alexandria in the Alexandrian Imagination 169
24. 11. The Birth Myths of Ptolemy Soter 184
25. 12. ‘Alexandrianism’ Again: Regionalism, Alexandria, and Aesthetics 199
26. Part Five: Integration: Social In-Groups and Out-Groups
27. Introduction 223
28. 13. Staging the Oikos: Character and Belonging in Menander’s Samia 225
29. 14. Making Yourself at Home in the Hellenistic World 245
30. 15.Mère-patrie et patrie d’adoption à l’époque hellénistique: Réfl exions à partir du cas des mercenaires crétois de Milet 268
31. Part Six: Insulae: Geopolitics and Geopoetics
32. Introduction 293
33. 16 ‘Entirely Ignorant of the Agora’ (Alkiphron 1.14.3): Fishing and the Economy of Hellenistic Delos 295
34. 17. De l’ouverture au repli: Les prêts du sanctuaire de Délos 316
35. 18. Connections, Origins, and the Construction of Belonging in the Poetry of Kallimachos 325
36. References 341
37. Contributors 387
38. Index 391
39. Backmatter 401