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    The shaping of the past: local history and fourth-century Delian reactions to Athenian imperialism

    Constantakopoulou, Christy (2015) The shaping of the past: local history and fourth-century Delian reactions to Athenian imperialism. In: Meidani, K. and Powell, A. (eds.) The Eyesore of Aigina: Anti-Athenian Attitudes Across the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Worlds. Publication de la Faculte Des Lettres de L'Universite de Lil. Classical Press of Wales, pp. 125-146. ISBN 9781905125593.

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    Abstract

    Book synopsis: 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. This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Research Centres and Institutes: Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for the (BIH)
    Depositing User: Christy Constantakopoulou
    Date Deposited: 15 Nov 2016 14:25
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:27
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/16610

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