Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus

Herausgeber: Figueira, Thomas; Soares, Carmen

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Produktbeschreibung

Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the Western consciousness of collective identity. In this book fourteen contributors explore ethnicity - the very self-understanding of belonging to a body of human beings - through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781138631113
• ISBN-10: 1138631116
• Artikelnr.: 69947031

Autorenporträt

Thomas Figueira is Distinguished Professor of Classics and of Ancient History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. Carmen Soares is Professor (Professora Catedrática) of Classics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Scientific Coordinator of the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the same university.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Thomas Figueira Part 1: The Methodology of Ethnic
Identification in Herodotus 1. Herodotus' Herm¿neus and the Translation of
Culture in the Histories Steven Brandwood 2. Language as a Marker of
Ethnicity in Herodotus and Contemporaries Thomas Figueira 3. Protocols of
Ethnic Specification in Herodotus Brian Hill 4. Emotion and Ethnicity in
Herodotus' Histories Emily Allen-Hornblower Part 2: Ethnicity among the
Greeks 5. Mages and Ionians Revisited Gregory Nagy 6. Freedom and Culture
in Herodotus Rosaria Vignolo Munson 7. Cosmopolitanism and Contingency in
Herodotus: Myth and Tragedy in the Fourth Book of the Histories Alexandre
Agnolon 8. A Goddess for the Greeks. Demeter as Identity Factor in
Herodotus Nuno Simões Rodrigues Part 3: Ethnic Identity among the Barbaroi
9. Herodotus' Memphite Sources Rogério de Sousa 10. The Greeks as seen from
the East. Xerxes' European Enemy Maria de Fátima Silva 11. Mirages of
Ethnicity and the Distant North in Book Four of the Histories:
Hyperboreans, Arimaspians and Issedones Renaud Gagné 12. Ethnicity in
Herodotus. The Story of Helen through the Egyptians' Eyes Maria do Céu
Fialho Part 4: Reflections of Herodotean Ethnic Historiography 13.
Barbarians, Greekness, and Wisdom: The Afterlife of Croesus' Debate with
Solon Delfim Leão 14. Scientific Discourse in Herodotus Book II of
Histories and its Reflection in the Age of New World Discovery Carmen
Soares. Index of Ancient Sources Subject Index