| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Delos, its networks, regionalism, and the Aegean world -- 2. The politics of connectivity: a history of the Islanders' League -- 3. Building, investing, and displaying on Delos: a history of third- and second-century monumentalization -- 4. Proxenies, statues, crowns: the Delian network of honours -- 5. The social dynamics of dedication: the Delian inventories of the third century BC -- 6. Conclusions |
| Summary |
This book addresses the history of interaction in the Aegean world during the third century BC. The main focus is the island of Delos and its important regional sanctuary. Through a thorough investigation of the Delian epigraphic and material evidence, it explores how and to which degree the islands of the southern Aegean formed active networks of political, religious, and cultural interaction. The book aims to show that this kind of regional interaction in the southern Aegean resulted in the creation of a regional identity, which was expressed, among other things, in the existence of a federal union of the islands, the so-called Islanders' League. It is structured along the lines of four case studies which explore different types of networks around Delos: the federal organization of islands (Islanders' League), the participation of Delian and other agents in the processes of monumentalization of the Delian landscape, the network of honours, and the social dynamics of dedication through the record of dedicants in the Delian inventories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Antike
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Kulturaustausch
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| SUBJECT |
Delos Island (Greece) -- History -- To 1500
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Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) -- History -- To 1500
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| Subject |
Greece -- Delos Island
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Mediterranean Region -- Aegean Islands
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191829345 |
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019182934X |
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9780191091162 |
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0191091162 |
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