TY - CHAP

T1 - Connecting the Greeks

T2 - Festival networks in the Hellenistic world

AU - Williamson, Christina

AU - van Nijf, Onno

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Panhellenic festivals were central to the ancient Greek world since archaic times, with places such as Delphi and Olympia defining the essence of a Greek ‘imagined community’. In the Hellenistic period, several Greek cities began to organize large-scale festivals of their own at their main sanctuaries, gradually linking the expanded Greek world together through increasingly stronger ties. As Rome became dominant in the eastern Mediterranean, it was able to use these existing festival connections to anchor its hegemony, making them thereby even stronger. Through case studies of festivals at Magnesia on the Maeander, Stratonikeia, and Oropos we explore ways that network theory can help interpret this phenomenon.

AB - Panhellenic festivals were central to the ancient Greek world since archaic times, with places such as Delphi and Olympia defining the essence of a Greek ‘imagined community’. In the Hellenistic period, several Greek cities began to organize large-scale festivals of their own at their main sanctuaries, gradually linking the expanded Greek world together through increasingly stronger ties. As Rome became dominant in the eastern Mediterranean, it was able to use these existing festival connections to anchor its hegemony, making them thereby even stronger. Through case studies of festivals at Magnesia on the Maeander, Stratonikeia, and Oropos we explore ways that network theory can help interpret this phenomenon.

KW - Sport in antiquity

KW - Hellenistic history

KW - network theory

KW - Greek religion

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783515115711

T3 - Alte Geschichte

SP - 43

EP - 71

BT - Athletics in the Hellenistic world

A2 - Mann, Christian

A2 - Remijssen, Sophie

A2 - Scharff, Sebastian

PB - Franz Steiner Verlag

CY - Stuttgart

ER -