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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 306; 930
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology; Archaeology
• Altri autori: DerksTon RoymansNico
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethnic constructs in antiquity
• ISBN: 1-282-12936-8; 9786612129360; 90-485-0791-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996202469603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Amsterdam archaeological studies ; ; 13.