Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity

Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity
Author: Irad Malkin
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies Company
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book is a study of the variable perceptions of Greek collective identity, discussing ancient categories such as blood- and mythically-related primordiality, language, religion, and culture. It considers complex middle grounds of intra-Hellenic perceptions, oppositional identities, and outsiders' views.

Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World

Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World
Author:
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1624660894

By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and non-Romans. A general introduction, thorough annotation, maps, a select bibliography, and an index are also included.

Hellenisms

Hellenisms
Author: Katerina Zacharia
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351931067

This volume casts a fresh look at the multifaceted expressions of diachronic Hellenisms. A distinguished group of historians, classicists, anthropologists, ethnographers, cultural studies, and comparative literature scholars contribute essays exploring the variegated mantles of Greek ethnicity, and the legacy of Greek culture for the ancient and modern Greeks in the homeland and the diaspora, as well as for the ancient Romans and the modern Europeans. Given the scarcity of books on diachronic Hellenism in the English-speaking world, the publication of this volume represents nothing less than a breakthrough. The book provides a valuable forum to reflect on Hellenism, and is certain to generate further academic interest in the topic. The specific contribution of this volume lies in the fact that it problematizes the fluidity of Hellenism and offers a much-needed public dialogue between disparate viewpoints, in the process making a case for the existence and viability of such a polyphony. The chapters in this volume offer a reorientation of the study of Hellenism away from a binary perception to approaches giving priority to fluidity, hybridity, and multi-vocality. The volume also deals with issues of recycling tradition, cultural category, and perceptions of ethnicity. Topics explored range from European Philhellenism to Hellenic Hellenism, from the Athens 2004 Olympics to Greek cinema, from a psychoanalytical engagement with anthropological material to a subtle ethnographic analysis of Greek-American women's material culture. The readership envisaged is both academic and non-specialist; with this aim in mind, all quotations from ancient and modern sources in foreign languages have been translated into English.

Ethnicity in the Ancient World – Did it matter?

Ethnicity in the Ancient World – Did it matter?
Author: Erich S. Gruen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110685809

This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than through the imposition of modern categories, labels, and frameworks. A central issue guides the course of the work: did ancient writers reflect upon collective identity as determined by common origins and lineage or by shared traditions and culture?

Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity

Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity
Author: Ton Derks
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9089640789

A bold and original examination of the relationships between ethnicity and political power in the ancient world.

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Author: Jeremy McInerney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444337343

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field

Heterological Ethnicity

Heterological Ethnicity
Author: Johannes Siapkas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is a Ph.D. dissertation. In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasizes the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinizes how classical archaeologists and ancient hi

Hellenicity

Hellenicity
Author: Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2002-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226313290

For instance, he shows that the four main ethnic subcategories of the ancient Greeks - Akhaians, Ionians, Aiolians, and Dorians - were not primordial survivals from a premigratory period, but emerged in precise historical circumstances during the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.

A Small Greek World

A Small Greek World
Author: Irad Malkin
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 019973481X

Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. This book looks at how Greek the network shaped a small Greek world where separation is measured by degrees of contact rather than by physical dimensions.

Archaic Greece

Archaic Greece
Author: Nick Fisher
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages: 479
Release: 1998-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910589586

The study of archaic Greece (c. 750-480 BC) is being transformed by exciting discoveries and interpretations. In fourteen original studies from a distinguished international cast, this book explores many aspects of a rapidly changing Greek world. Detailed re-interpretation of archaeological material reveals diversity in patterns of settlement, sanctuaries and burial practices, and shows motivations underlying the expanding exchange of goods and the settlement of new communities. Local studies of archaeology and iconography revise our image of the peculiarity of Spartan society and East Greek cult. Texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly-found poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations. And there are new studies of developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent Greek life-style, and the articulation of political thought.