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Additional authors

1. Figueira, Thomas J.
2. Soares, Carmen (Professor of literature)
3. Celtic Conference in Classics (9th : 2016 : University College, Dublin)

Description

1. x, 341 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. Herodotus
2. History (Herodotus)
3. To 1500
4. Ethnicity in literature
5. Greeks > Ethnic identity
6. Ethnicity > Greece > History > To 1500
7. Ethnic relations > Historiography
8. Ethnicity
9. Greek colonies
10. Historiography
11. Greece > Ethnic relations > Historiography
12. Greece > Colonies > Historiography
13. Greece

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction / Thomas Figueira -- Herodotus' Hermēneus and the translation of culture in the histories / Steven Brandwood -- Language as a marker of ethnicity in Herodotus and contemporaries / Thomas Figueira -- Protocols of ethnic specification in Herodotus / Brian Hill -- Emotion and ethnicity in Herodotus' Histories / Emily Allen-Hornblower -- Mages and Ionians revisited / Gregory Nagy -- Freedom and culture in Herodotus Rosaria / Vignolo Munson -- Cosmopolitanism and contingency in Herodotus : myth and tragedy in the fourth book of the Histories / Alexandre Agnolon -- A goddess for the Greeks. Demeter as identity factor in Herodotus / Nuno Simões Rodrigues -- Herodotus' Memphite sources / Rogério de Sousa -- The Greeks as seen from the East. Xerxes' European enemy / Maria de Fátima Silva -- Mirages of ethnicity and the distant north in book four of the Histories : Hyperboreans, Arimaspians and Issedones / Renaud Gagné -- Ethnicity In Herodotus. The story of Helen through the Egyptians' Eyes / Maria do Céu Fialho -- Barbarians, Greekness, and wisdom : the afterlife of Croesus' debate with Solon / Delfim Leão -- Scientific discourse in Herodotus Book II of Histories and its reflection in the age of new world discovery / Carmen Soares.

Call number

1. JFE 20-5111

Note

1. "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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Title

1. Ethnicity and identity in Herodotus / edited by Thomas Figueira and Carmen Soares.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological term

1. To 1500

Added author

1. Figueira, Thomas J., editor.
2. Soares, Carmen (Professor of literature), editor.
3. Celtic Conference in Classics (9th : 2016 : University College, Dublin)

Other form:

1. Online version: Ethnicity and identity in herodotus. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9781315209081 (DLC) 2019039120

LCCN

1. 2019039119

ISBN

1. 9781138631113 hardcover
2. 1138631116 hardcover
3. 9781315209081 electronic book

Research call number

1. JFE 20-5111