Xenocracy and cultural entanglement in Hellenistic Greece and Egypt

该项目探索古代异族统治的深层行政结构，采用以下比较研究方法：a)追踪异族统治及其行为者在社会实践的不同领域；以及b)不同行为者和个人群体中的异国感，以及行使权力的破坏/稳定后果。正在研究的两个领域，希腊化的希腊和托勒密王朝的埃及，在不同的时刻，经历了从一个外国统治到另一个统治的无缝过渡；这两个领域都从希腊化君主制的折叠进入罗马：公元前2世纪的希腊，第一世纪的埃及。伴随着这些转变，异乡人的观念和意义都发生了深刻的变化。A分项目衡量了希腊化希腊城市中异族统治的变化，而B分项目通过历时的社会历史调查来追溯Strategos办公室在古希腊-罗马埃及管理中的作用和重要性。这两个次级项目都是为了在彼此的密切对话中审查异族社会的感知和行为轨迹，也就是说，它们不仅从行使权力的角度处理异族社会结构，而且还围绕异族身份的感知和归属的角度。在这种背景下，他们还在去化/稳定异族统治的背景下探索异国化的概念。

The project explores the deep administrative structures of xenocracy in antiquity, pursuing the following avenues of comparative examination: a) the tracing of xenocratic rule as well as its actors in different arenas of social practice; and b) the perception of foreignness within different groups of actors and persons and the de-/stabilizing consequences for the exercise of power. Two areas of investigation are under examination, Hellenistic Greece and Ptolemaic Egypt, which, at different moments in time, experienced a seamless transition from one foreign rule to another; both realms went from the fold of the Hellenistic monarchies into that of Rome: Greece in the second century BCE, Egypt in the first. Along with these transitions, both the perception and meaning of foreignness underwent deep alterations. Subproject A gauges the change of xenocratic rule in the cities of Hellenistic Greece, while subproject B traces the role and importance of the office of strategos in the administration of Graeco-Roman Egypt by means of a diachronic, sociohistorical investigation. Both subprojects are designed to examine, in close conversation with one another, xenocratic trajectories both perceptually and praxeologically, i.e., they address xenocratic structures not only from the perspective of a mere exercise of power; rather, they revolve around the perspectives of perception and attribution of foreignness. In this vein, they also explore the notion of foreignness in the context of de-/stabilizing xenocratic rule.