Ethnicity and identity in Herodotus

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The work Ethnicity and identity in Herodotus represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Ethnicity and identity in Herodotus

Statement of responsibility

edited by Thomas Figueira and Carmen Soares

Contributor

• Celtic Conference in Classics, 2016
• Figueira, Thomas J.
• Soares, Carmen, (Professor of literature)

Editor

• Figueira, Thomas J.
• Soares, Carmen, (Professor of literature)

Subject

• Ethnicity -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
• Ethnicity in literature
• Greece -- Colonies | Historiography
• Greece -- Ethnic relations | Historiography
• Greeks -- Ethnic identity
• Herodotus

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

OCoLC-P

Dewey number

938/.03

Index

index present

LC call number

PA4004

LC item number

.E84 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography