Angelos Chaniōtēs Livres

The 12 essays, written by leading specialists in the fields of social and military history, explore the direct and indirect influence exercised by the armed forces on government, society, and politics in Assyria, India, Persia, Greece, and in the Roman Empire. Central themes of the volume are the role played by the army in political takeovers, in maintening polical power, in social hierarchy and mobility, and in the domination and control of occupied territories.

Subject: The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death. The imperial dynasties of his successors incorporated and reorganized the fallen Persian empire, creating a new land empire stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean to as far east as Bactria. In old Greece a fragile balance of power was continually disturbed by wars. Then, from the late third century, the military and diplomatic power of Rome successively defeated and dismantled every one of the post-Alexandrian political structures. The Hellenistic period (c. 323-30 BC) was then one of fragmentation, violent antagonism between large states, and struggles by small polities to retain an illusion of independence. Yet it was also a period of growth, prosperity, and intellectual achievement. A vast network spread of trade, influence and cultural contact, from Italy to Afghanistan and from Russia to Ethiopia, enriching and enlivening centres of wealth, power and intellectual ferment. From Alexander the Great's early days building an empire, via wars with Rome, rampaging pirates, Cleopatra's death and the Jewish diaspora, right up to the death of Hadrian, Chaniotis examines the social structures, economic trends, political upheaval and technological progress of an era that spans five centuries and where, perhaps, modernity began

Inhalt: J. F. Cherry: Introductory Reflections on Economies and Scale in Prehistoric Crete K. Sbonias: Social Development, Management of Production, and Symbolic Representation in Prepalatial Crete D. C. Haggis: Staple Finance, Peak Sanctuaries, and Economic Complexity in Late Prepalatial Crete A. Michailidou: Systems of Weight and Relations of Production in Late Bronze Age Crete E. H. Cline: The Nature of the Economic Relations of Crete with Egypt and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age K. Nowicki: Economy of Refugees: Life in the Cretan Mountains at the Turn of the Bronze and Iron Ages S. Alcock: Three "R's" of the Cretan Economy A. Chaniotis: Milking the Mountains: Economic Activities on the Cretan Uplands in the Classical and Hellenistic Period D. Viviers: Economy and Territorial Dynamics in Crete from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period F. Guizzi: Private Economic Activities in Hellenistic Crete M. I. Stefanakis: The Introduction of Coinage in Crete and the Beginning of Local Minting A. Marangou: Wine in the Cretan Economy S. Paton / R. M. Schneider: Imperial Splendour in the Province: Imported Marble on Roman Crete M. W. Baldwin Bowsky: The Business of Being Roman: The Prosopographical Evidence N. Litinas: Ostraca Chersonesi W. V. Harris: Crete in the Hellenistic and Roman Economies: A Comment Select Bibliography – Index

Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. An overview of war and society in the Hellenistic world. Highlights the interdependence of warfare and social phenomena.

The study of emotions has emerged as one of the most dynamic topics of research in Ancient History, Classics, and Archaeology. Studying a variety of sources (historiography, Greek and Latin poetry and oratory, the New Testament, inscriptions, medical authors, Greek vase-painting and sculpture, skeletal remains) and using different methodological approaches, the authors of this volume address a selection of questions related with the study of emotions in Greek and Roman culture: the representation of emotion in literature and art; the arousal of emotion through texts and images; the expression of emotion through metaphor and metonymy; the display of emotions in rituals; intellectual discourse concerning specific emotions (pride, grief, fear); emotional communities; and the importance of emotions in public life, value systems, and social relations.

This volume assembles approaches to rituals in several cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean (Egyptian, Punic, Greek, Italian, Roman) from the second millennium BCE to Late Antiquity. 'Ritual dynamics' is the common theme of the fourteen chapters. Rituals are understood as complex socio-cultural constructs that are connected with tensions: tensions within the cult community; tensions between norm and performance, expectation and reality, traditional significance and re-interpretation, stereotype and variability. Exploiting a variety of sources (literary sources, inscriptions, iconography), the authors approach the questions of how such tensions influence the performance and impact of rituals, how they generate change, how ritual agency is connected with gender and social standing, how rituals trigger particular emotions and create emotional communities, and how the literary and visual representations of rituals reflect their cultural relevance.

Held in Heidelberg from September 29 to October 2, 2008, the international conference “Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual,” organized by the collaborative research center SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics,” gathered leading experts and over 600 participants to reassess traditional studies on rituals in light of recent research. The findings are presented in five volumes, marking a significant advancement for future transcultural, interdisciplinary, and multi-methodical research on rituals. The conference highlighted a wide range of disciplines and diverse methods, covering various topics across cultural geography and spanning from antiquity to the present. The proceedings illustrate the broad definition of rituals and examine the conditions, modes, and functions of ritual actions in different cultures, both past and present. A key conclusion is that no single model for rituals exists, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in ritual research, along with the development of innovative research methods. The five volumes include: Volume I: Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia; Volume II: Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience; Volume III: State, Power, and Violence; Volume IV: Reflexivity, Media, and Visuality; Volume V: Transfer and Spaces. A set price for all five volumes is available (978-3-447-06206-0).

Alexander der Große öffnete die Grenzen nach Osten, bis ans Ende der Welt, bis nach Indien. Mit ihm beginnt die Vernetzung großer Teile Europas, Asiens und Nordafrikas und das lange Zeitalter des Hellenismus. Bis in das Rom Kaiser Hadrians im 2. Jh. n.Chr. verfolgt Angelos Chaniotis die Spuren des kulturellen Austauschs, der Europa bis heute prägt.

Wie die Kultur der Griechen zuerst das Römische Reich und dann Europa prägte Es war Alexander der Große, der die Grenzen nach Osten, bis ans Ende der Welt, bis nach Indien öffnete. Mit ihm begannen nicht nur das lange Zeitalter des Hellenismus, sondern auch die Vernetzung großer Teile Europas, Asiens und Nordafrikas und damit die Globalisierung. Doch wie ging es weiter? Der Historiker Angelos Chaniotis erzählt in seinem Buch die Geschichte zweier Epochen, die sonst meist getrennt voneinander behandelt werden: das hellenistische Zeitalter und die frühe römische Kaiserzeit. So zeigt er, wie sehr die Kultur der Griechen die darauf folgenden Epochen weit über die Zeit der altrömischen Kaiser hinaus prägte: die spannende Geschichte eines kosmopolitischen Zeitalters: von Alexander dem Großen (334 v. Chr.) bis zu dem römischen Kaiser Hadrian (138 n. Chr.) Chaniotis bricht in seinem Referenzwerk mit der traditionellen Epochengliederung der Alten Geschichte kenntnisreicher Überblick über Kaiser und Provinzen, Könige und Stadtstaaten, Bürger und Religionen brillante Darstellung einer folgenreichen Epoche der europäischen Geschichte Globalisierung, Metropolen, Innovationen - ein neues Bild der griechischen Antike Mit seinen Eroberungen schuf Alexander zwar kein Weltreich von Dauer, dafür aber die Voraussetzungen für die Entstehung eines politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Netzwerks, das buchstäblich die gesamte damals bekannte Welt umfasste. Die Entstehung von Metropolen, Weltbürgertum und Lokalpatriotismus, technologische Innovationen und neue Religionen wie das Christentum, aber auch soziale Konflikte und Kriege gehören zu den Kennzeichen dieser Welt. Globalisierung, Mobilität und Multikulturalität - die Fragen, die die alten Griechen beschäftigten sind auch heute noch von großer Bedeutung. Wer das Wesen der Globalisierung mit all seinen positiven und negativen Folgen verstehen will, der sollte mit diesem ausgezeichneten Sachbuch sein erstes Auftreten in der Alten Geschichte erkunden!