Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

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

Description

x, 341 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subjects

• Ethnicity
• Greece
• Greeks > Ethnic identity
• History
• Historiography
• Ethnic relations > Historiography
• To 1500
• Greek colonies
• Herodotus > History
• Ethnicity > Greece > History > To 1500
• Greece > Colonies > Historiography
• Ethnicity in literature
• Greece > Ethnic relations > Historiography
• History (Herodotus)

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "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)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

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

JFE 20-5111

ISBN

• 9781138631113
• 1138631116
• 9781315209081 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019039119

OCLC

1125274851

Title

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

Publisher

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

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Figueira, Thomas J., editor.

Soares, Carmen (Professor of literature), editor.

Celtic Conference in Classics (9th : 2016 : University College, Dublin)

Other Form:

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

Research Call Number

JFE 20-5111