Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108729963
• ISBN-10: 1108729967
• Artikelnr.: 54644023

Autorenporträt

Naoíse Mac Sweeney is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester, specialising in the study of ethnicity, identity and migration. She has published widely in the fields of ancient history, archaeology, race relations, international development and peacebuilding studies, and she is the author of Community Identity and Archaeology (2011). Naoíse has also pursued her research interests through archaeological fieldwork in Turkey, in particular as part of the Kilise Tepe Archaeological Project.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: identity and the construction of cultural difference
2. Foundation myths and politics
3. Ionia
4. Miletus: violence and bloodshed
5. Chios and Samos: land and island
6. Colophon and Ephesus: founding mothers
7. Being Ionian: the Ionian League, Ionian migrations, and Smyrna
8. Conclusions.