| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Beyond and Below the Polis: Networks, Associations and the Writing of Greek History; 2. Network Theory and Theoric Networks; 3. Did the Delphic Amphiktiony Play a Political Role in the Classical Period?; 4. Pythios and Pythion: The Spread of a Cult Title; 5. Cults of Demeter Eleusinia and the Transmission of Religious Ideas; 6. What Travelled with Greek Pottery?; 7. Networks of Commerce and Knowledge in the Iron Age: The Case of the Phoenicians; 8. Networks of Rhodians in Karia |
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9. Libanius' Social Networks: Understanding the Social Structure of the later Roman empire10. Network Theory and Religious Innovation; 11. Commercial Networks in the Mediterranean and the Diffusion of Early Attic Red-figure pottery (525-490 BCE); 12. Brotherhoods of Faith and Provident Planning: The Non-Public Associations of the Greek World; 13. Thessalians abroad, the case of Pharsalos; 14. Profitable Networks: Coinages, Panegyreis and Dionysiac Artists; 15. On the Road to India with Apollonios of Tyana and Thomas the Apostle |
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16. Via Egnatia after Egnatius: Imperial Policy and Inter-regional Contacts17. Hadrian's Panhellenion: A Network of Cities?; 18. Merchant Networks in the Greek World: The Impact of Rome; Introduction; Index |
| Summary |
How useful is the concept of ""network"" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Bringing together some of the most active and prominent researchers in ancient history, this book moves beyond political institutions, ethnic, and geographical boundaries in order to observe the ancient Mediterranean through a perspective of network interaction. It employs a wide range of approaches, and to examine re |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Interregionalism -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
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Interregionalism
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| SUBJECT |
Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005633
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| Subject |
Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malkin, Irad
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Constantakopoulou, Christy, 1972-
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Panagopoulou, Katerina
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| ISBN |
1317991141 |
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9781317991144 |
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9781315876580 |
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1315876582 |
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