Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus
Figueira, Thomas
Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource
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Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness - and necessarily that of later civilizations influenced by the ancient Greeks - which was perpetually in dialogue and tension with other ways of living in groups. In this book, 14 contributors explore ethnicity - the very self-understanding of belonging to a separate body of human beings - and how it evolves and consolidates (or ethnogenesis). This inquiry is focussed through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography, in this instance not only as the stylized portrayal of other societies, but also as an exegesis on how ethnocultural differentiation may affect the lives, and even the very existence, of one's own people. Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus is one facet of a project that intends to bring Portuguese and English-speaking scholars of antiquity into closer cooperation. It has united a cross-section of North American classicists with a distinguished cohort of Portuguese and Brazilian experts on Greek literature and history writing in English.
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9781032337210 9781138631113 9781315209081
10.4324/9781315209081 doi
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity--History--Greece--To 1500.
Greeks--Ethnic identity.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Grecs--Identité ethnique.
Ancient history
Ethnic relations--Historiography
Ethnicity in literature
Ethnicity
Greek colonies
Greeks--Ethnic identity
Historiography
History and Archaeology
History
HISTORY--Ancient--General.
Asiatic Greeks Athenaion Politeia Book III Common Language Demeter Eleusinia Demeter Thesmophoros Demeter's Sanctuary Derveni Papyrus Diogenes Laertius Doric Dialect Ethnicity Ethnography Historiography Herodotus Identity Anthropology Greece Female Genital Cutting fifth-century ethnicity Greek Enemy Greek Ethnic Identity Greek identity Herodotean Narrative Herodotus' ethnographic project Ionian Revolt Naval Forces non-Greek Languages Olive Tree Leaves Persian Empire Resistance Myths self-awareness Solon's Archonship Thriasian Plain Thutmose III Violated Young Men
Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2020 - 1 online resource
Free-to-read
Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness - and necessarily that of later civilizations influenced by the ancient Greeks - which was perpetually in dialogue and tension with other ways of living in groups. In this book, 14 contributors explore ethnicity - the very self-understanding of belonging to a separate body of human beings - and how it evolves and consolidates (or ethnogenesis). This inquiry is focussed through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography, in this instance not only as the stylized portrayal of other societies, but also as an exegesis on how ethnocultural differentiation may affect the lives, and even the very existence, of one's own people. Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus is one facet of a project that intends to bring Portuguese and English-speaking scholars of antiquity into closer cooperation. It has united a cross-section of North American classicists with a distinguished cohort of Portuguese and Brazilian experts on Greek literature and history writing in English.
Open licence
eng
9781032337210 9781138631113 9781315209081
10.4324/9781315209081 doi
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity--History--Greece--To 1500.
Greeks--Ethnic identity.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Grecs--Identité ethnique.
Ancient history
Ethnic relations--Historiography
Ethnicity in literature
Ethnicity
Greek colonies
Greeks--Ethnic identity
Historiography
History and Archaeology
History
HISTORY--Ancient--General.
Asiatic Greeks Athenaion Politeia Book III Common Language Demeter Eleusinia Demeter Thesmophoros Demeter's Sanctuary Derveni Papyrus Diogenes Laertius Doric Dialect Ethnicity Ethnography Historiography Herodotus Identity Anthropology Greece Female Genital Cutting fifth-century ethnicity Greek Enemy Greek Ethnic Identity Greek identity Herodotean Narrative Herodotus' ethnographic project Ionian Revolt Naval Forces non-Greek Languages Olive Tree Leaves Persian Empire Resistance Myths self-awareness Solon's Archonship Thriasian Plain Thutmose III Violated Young Men
