Format:
x, 341 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-1-138-63111-3
Content:
"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 fourteen 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 focused 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 which 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"--
Note:
"This book grew out of a panel which the editors organized: "Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Herodotus: Through Others' Eyes". It was held at the Ninth Celtic Conference in Classics, University College Dublin, June 2016"-- Preface. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebk. ISBN 978-1-315-20908-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
ca. 485 v. Chr.-424 v. Chr. Herodotus
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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