Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity
The Role of Power and Tradition
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
This bold and original volume explores themes of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in the societies of the ancient world. It starts with a current view held by many in the social and historical sciences, namely that ethnicity is a subjective concept shaped through an interaction with the ethnic other. The thirteen essays collected here analyze historical, epigraphic, and archaeological source material in order to consider the dynamic nature of ethnic formations over time, and range thematically from archaic Greece to early medieval Western Europe.
Introduction
Ton Derks / Nico Roymans
Ethnic Expression on the Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Greek Mainland
Where Should We Be Looking?
Catherine Morgan
The Ionians in the Archaic Period. Shifting Identities in a Changing World
Jan Paul Crielaard
From Athenian Identity to European Ethnicity. The Cultural Biography of the Myth of Marathon
Hans-Joachim Gehrke
Multi-ethnicity and Ethnic Segregation in Hellenistic Babylon
Bert van der Spek
The Galatians in the Roman Empire. Historical Tradition and Ethnic Identity in
Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
Karl Strobel
Material Culture and Plural Identity in Early Roman Southern Italy
Douwe Yntema
Foundation Myths in Roman Palestine. Traditions and Reworkings
Nicole Belayche
Ethnic Discourses on the Frontiers of Roman Africa
Dick Whittaker
Cruptorix and His Kind. Talking Ethnicity on the Middle Ground
Greg Woolf
Hercules and the Construction of a Batavian Identity in the Context of the Roman empire
Nico Roymans
Ethnic Identity in the Roman Frontier. The Epigraphy of Batavi and Other Lower Rhine Tribes
Ton Derks
Grave Goods, Ethnicity, and the Rhetoric of Burial Rites in Late Antique Northern Gaul
Frans Theuws
The Early-Medieval Use of Ethnic Names from Classical Antiquity. The Case of the Frisians
Jos Bazelmans
Index of Names
List of Contributors
Anthropology: General Anthropology
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