‘The Eyesore of Aigina’
Anti-Athenian Attitudes across the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
edited by Anton Powell and Katerina Meidani
Hardback (Published)
(May 2016)
ISBN: 9781905125593
6.1 x 9.17 inches
Price: $80.00
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Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others — whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans — saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. The 12 new studies in this volume, by a distinguished international cast, trace negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. They challenge the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and cast light on the thinking of ancient peoples who – nowadays – tend to exist in Athens’ shadow.
Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others — whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans — saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. The 12 new studies in this volume, by a distinguished international cast, trace negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. They challenge the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and cast light on the thinking of ancient peoples who – nowadays – tend to exist in Athens’ shadow.
Thomas J. Figueira (Rutgers) Aigina: Island as Paradigm and Counter-Paradigm Anton Powell (Swansea) Aphaia against Athena: How Aggressive was Aigina towards Athens? Dominique Lenfant (Strasbourg) The Allies' Viewpoint on the Athenian Empire: the Evidence of Plutarch's Lives Lynette Mitchell (Exeter) Anti-Athenian Attitudes in 5th-Century Sicily? John K. Davies (Liverpool) Theopompos on Athenian Policies and Politicians Martin Dreher (Magdeburg) Anti-Athenian Attitudes and the Second Athenian Confederacy Christy Constantakopoulou (London) Local History and 4th-Century Delian Reactions to Athenian Imperialism Kostas Buraselis (Athens) In the Shadow of Pydna: Incorrigible Athens as an Opportunity for the Achaeans Ioanna Kralli (Ionian) The Image of Athens in the Hellenistic World: To Sneer or to Revere? Maria Plastira-Valkanou (Thessaloniki) The Image of Athenians in the Greek Epigram Nikos Giannakopoulos (Thessaloniki) Condemning the Athenian past, Rejecting the Athenian Present: Aspects of Anti-Athenian Discourses under the Early Roman Principate Dorothy Figueira (Georgia) Reading Greece. Travel Narratives, Aesthetic Sensibilities and the Aiginetan Marbles
- Edited by Katerina Meidani
- Edited by Anton Powell
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