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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2018] Manifestations and Resolutions of Social Disunity in Hellenistic Times, 4th-1st century BCE
DESCRIPTION:The ethnic groups of the Orient and North Africa underwent far-reaching social changes during the foreign rules of Alexander’s successors: Numerous Greeks, Macedonians, and others became the new rulers of these areas, where they made up the ruling class and where, in turn, new societies of “Hellenes“ were forming. Partly, they lived door to door with indigenous people, and partly they lived in segregated settlements apart from the indigenous population. They were keen on keeping their social identity, which entailed privileges. The social disunion found its expression, among other aspects, in the use of Greek as the language of rule. These “Hellenes” were no closed group, but remained open for newcomers, because the local, too, could become Greek, if he possessed certain skills. Despite of their diversity and this inner structure, these constructs are to be referred to as societies, because they were under the rule of monarchs: They are multiethnic, subject to constant formation and change. Their social, cultural and religious divisiveness is a basic state, consituted as it was by processes ranging from rapprochement and appropriation, encounter and contact, resistance and repulsion. There is ample proof that there were strong fictions within the kingdoms that could reach up to the most extreme form of conflict resolution, (civil) war, but the circumstances within the respective realms have been interpreted differently. The section asks what causes the frictions had and how the kings handled them, i.e. which mechanisms of conflict resolution and integration were supposed to help in restoring social peace, and how particular population groups reacted regarding these strategies and how they became active themselves. It will be necessary to consider whether there are constituting lines of conflict, norms, and results for the entire epoch, and what explanatory models can be deduced from a ‘significant diversity.’
Der Beitrag Manifestations and Resolutions of Social Disunity in Hellenistic Times, 4th-1st century BCE erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2018.
LOCATION:LWL (LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur)
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