Preface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction. Ewen Bowie Part II: The Hellenistic Prequel 2. Hellenistic Civic Identities: Evolving Intersections of Classical Athens, Paideia, and Democracy Ben Gray 3. Acraephia and its Material Past in the Ptoia of the Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Period Paraskevi Martzavou Part III: Ephebes and Festivals 4. Religious Visibility According to Ancestral Custom: Greek Festive Traditions, Poetic, Ritual and Other Athena Kavoulaki 5. Gymnasia, Ephebates, and Hellenic Cultural Identity in Imperial Achaea Matthew Evans 6. Celebrating Pythian Games: Hellenism and Local Identity in Civic Festivals of Asia Minor Zahra Newby Part IV: The Claudii Attici 7. Claudius Atticus, Father of Herodes, and the Spartan Agōgē: New Evidence Tony Spawforth 8. Bodies, Landscape, and Entanglement: Reading Herodes Atticus’ Marathonian Monuments through IG ii2 3606 Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis Part V: The Perspectives of Philosophers, Sophists and Litterateurs 9. Eternal City? Delphi, Hellenism, and the Civic in Plutarch Judith Mossman 10. Defining Hellenism: the Ideal Greek City According to Dio and Plutarch Thomas Schmidt 11. The Pride of Being Hellenic in Prusa ad Olympum and Rhodes. Anne Gangloff 12. The Fabric of Hellenic Civic Life in Alexandria According to Strabo, Dio of Prusa and Plutarch Lucia Athanassaki 13. Questioning Greek Civic Identity at the Imperial Symposium: Plutarch and Athenaeus Katerina Oikonomopoulou 14. Aelius Aristides on Smyrna and Rhodes Michael Trapp 15. Imperial Cyzicus: Strabo, Tryphaena, Aristides Janet Downie 16. Festival Athletics in the Imagines of the Elder Philostratus Jaś Elsner and Michael Squire 17. Hellenic Culture and Identity in the Epistles and Other ‘Minor’ works of the Philostratean Corpus Owen Hodkinson 18. Attic Landscapes Re-imagined: Alciphron’s Letters and the City-praise Tradition. Jason König Part VI :Hellenic Traditions in Action 19. The Tomb and Library of Celsus at Ephesus: Converting Roman Power into Local Privilege R. R. R. Smith 20. Communicating by Coinage: Money Talks Ewen Bowie Part VII: Greek Novels 21. Aphrodisias, Latin Poetry, and the Early Greek Novels: The Case of the Ninus and Chione Romances Daniel Jolowicz 22. The Elite, the Dēmos, and the Balance of Power in the Cities of the Ancient Greek Novels (ca. first-third centuries AD) Sophie Lalanne Part VIII: Outside the Ivory Towers 23. Seriously pederastic: The politics of pederasty in Roman Greece. Tim Whitmarsh 24. The Fabric of Hellenism and Popular Culture in the Imperial Greek City: Materiality and Resistance Lucy Grig 25. Christian Greek Literature in the Tradition of Hellenic Paideia in the Mid-third Century Stephen Mitchell 26. Thinking about the Future with Greek Cities Estelle Strazdins Bibliography Index