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Images and Ideologies
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Hellenistic Culture and Society
General Editors: Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew F. Stewart
I. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green
II. Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after
Alexander, edited by Amélie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White
III. The Question of "Eclecticism": Studies in Later Greek Philosophy, edited by J. M. Dillon and A. A. Long
IV. Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, by Richard A. Billows
V. A History of Macedonia, by R. Malcolm Errington, translated by Catherine Errington
VI. Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy
VII. The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora
VIII. Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, by Julia Annas
IX. Hellenistic History and Culture, by Peter Green et al.
X. The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica, by James
J. Clauss
XI. Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics, by Andrew Stewart
XII. Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, edited by Anthony Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A.
A. Long, and Andrew Stewart
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Images and Ideologies
Self-definition in the Hellenistic World
Edited By
Anthony Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen,
A. A. Long, and Andrew Stewart
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London
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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution provided by the General Endowment Fund of the Associates
of the University of California Press.
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 1993 by
The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world /
Anthony Bulloch et al.
p. cm. (Hellenistic culture and society); 12)
Papers presented at a conference held Apr. 7-9, 1988 at the
University of California at Berkeley.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-07526-9 (alk. paper)
1. HellenismCongresses. 2. Mediterranean RegionCivilization
Congresses. 3. GreeceCivilizationTo 146 B.C.Congresses.
4. Self-perceptionCongresses. I. Bulloch, A. W. II. Series.
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
Part One · The Social and Religious Aspects of Hellenistic Kingship
Introduction, 3
Erich Gruen
The King as Benefactor: Some Remarks on Ideal Kingship in the Age of Hellenism, 7
Klaus Bringmann
The Ptolemaic King as a Religious Figure, 25
Ludwig Koenen
Response, 116
Frank Walbank
Part Two · Identity and Crisis in Hellenistic Literature
Introduction, 127
Anthony Bulloch
Transformations, 130
Thomas Gelzer
Identities in Diversity; 152
Peter Parsons
Response, 171
Albert Henrichs
Part Three · Self-definition in Hellenistic Art
Introduction, 199
Andrew Stewart
Kings and Philosophers, 202
R. R. R. Smith
The Hellenistic Grave Stelai from Smyrna: Identity and Self-image in the Polis, 212
Paul Zanker
Response, 231
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
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Part Four · Self-identity in Politics and Religion
Introduction, 245
Anthony Bulloch
Images of Gods and Men in a Changing Society: Self-identity in Hellenistic Religion, 248
Folkert van Straten
Greek Cities and Greek Comonwealth, 265
Adalberto Giovannini
Response, 287
Albrecht Dihle
Part Five · Intellectuals and Images of the Philosophical Life
Introduction, 299
A. A. Long
The Porch and the Garden: Early Hellenistic Images of the Philosophical Life, 303
Fernanda Decleva Caizzi
Panaetius on the Virtue of Being Yourself, 330
Christopher Gill
Response, 354
Julia Annas
Select Bibliography 369
List of Contributors 401
Index 403
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PREFACE
The papers in this volume were all delivered in an earlier form at a conference held at the University of California at
Berkeley from April 7 to April 9, 1988. The title of the conference was "Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the
Hellenistic World," and it was sponsored by the Departments of Art History, Classics, and History, and by the
Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology.
Our purpose in holding the conference was to provide a context for a dialogue between specialists in the different
fields of Hellenistic study, and thereby, we hoped, to open up new perspectives in Hellenistic research. Most of those
who attended the conference seemed to agree that we had made a successful beginning, and the lectures and the
informal discussions that were to be heard outside the conference hall went far beyond the organizers' modest hopes.
Consequently we now offer the formal lectures from the conference in revised, and in many cases expanded, form to
a wider public, again in the hope that we may stimulate discussion of some of the key issues across the particular
fields of history, literature, philosophy, art, and religion. We are under no illusion that in one meeting, or one
volume, we could attempt a new synthesis of Hellenistic culture, but we do hope to have taken some steps in that
direction. We decided to choose a theme which would focus on an aspect of Hellenistic culture that cuts across all
disciplinary boundaries and is cardinal to them all, and we have sought to capture the individuality, the national and
personal identity, the cultural exchange and self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the
Hellenistic world.
The conference was divided into five panels, to cover the fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion,
each with two speakers
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and a respondent, and we have decided to keep the same format for this volume. We hope that thereby some of the
direction and focus achieved by the conference itself will be conveyed to the reader.
A project of this kind could not proceed without the benevolent support and assistance of many individuals and
institutions. In addition to the academic departments of the University of California at Berkeley mentioned above, we
wish to express our profound gratitude to the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley, the Skaggs Foundation,
and the Heller Fund of the Berkeley Classics Department for their very generous financial contributions. We have
also been particularly fortunate to enjoy the help of Lisa Zemelman, of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and
Mediterranean Archaeology, who was unstintingly generous in her work as conference coordinator; Rainer Mack, of
the Department of History of Art, who labored long hours getting the text of the papers into publishable shape; and
Mary Lamprech of the University of California Press, who was, as ever, endlessly patient and helpful. To them, and
to the many others who have helped us prepare both the conference and the volume arising from it, we express our
profound thanks.
ANTHONY BULLOCH
ERICH GRUEN
ANTHONY LONG
ANDREW STEWART
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