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Record Nr.

UNISA996202469603316

Titolo

Ethnic constructs in antiquity [[electronic resource] ] : the role of power and tradition / / editors Ton Derks & Nico Roymans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-12936-8

9786612129360

90-485-0791-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; ; 13

Altri autori (Persone)

DerksTon

RoymansNico

Disciplina

306

930

Soggetti

Ethnology

Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Ethnic expression on the Early Iron Age and early Archaic Greek mainland. Where should we be looking?; The Ionians in the Archaic period. Shifting identities in a changing world; From Athenian identity to European ethnicity - the cultural biography of the myth of Marathon; Multi-ethnicity and ethnic segregation in Hellenistic Babylon; The Galatians in the Roman Empire: historical tradition and ethnic identity in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor; Material culture and plural identity in early Roman Southern Italy

Foundation myths in Roman Palestine. Traditions and reworkingsEthnic discourses on the frontiers of Roman Africa; Cruptorix and his kind. Talking ethnicity on the middle ground; Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman empire; Ethnic identity in the Roman frontier. The epigraphy of Batavi and other Lower Rhine tribes; Grave goods, ethnicity, and the rhetoric of burial rites in Late Antique Northern Gaul; The early-medieval use of ethnic names from classical antiquity. The case of the Frisians; Index of names and places; List of contributors

Sommario/riassunto

A bold and original examination of the relationships between ethnicity



and political power in the ancient world