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Cultural borrowings and ethnic appropriations in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen (ed.).

Title
Cultural borrowings and ethnic appropriations in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen (ed.).
Publication
Stuttgart : Franz Steiner, 2005.

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Additional Authors
Gruen, Erich S.
Description
314 p. : ill., 1 map; 25 cm.
Series Statement
  • Geschichte
  • Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 8
Uniform Title
  • Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 8.
  • Geschichte (Franz Steiner Verlag)
Subject
  • Culture diffusion > Congresses
  • Civilization, Ancient > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Congresses (form)
Note
  • Conference held summer 2003 at Schloss Elmau, Bavarian Alps, Germany.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • 1 German, 13 English contributions.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Semiramis in history and legend: a case study in interpretation of an Assyrian historical tradition, with observations on archetypes in ancient historiography, on Euhemerism before Euhemerus, and on the so-called Greek ethnographic style / Stephanie Dalley -- Genesis 1-11 and its Mesopotamian problem / Ronald Hendel -- Periergia: Egyptian reactions to Greek curiosity / Jan Assmann -- Heroen als Grenzgänger zwischen Griechen und Barbaren / Hans-Joachim Gehrke -- Barbarian lineage in classical Greek mythology and art: Pelops, Danaos and Kadmos / M.C. Miller -- Persia through the Jewish looking-glass / Erich S. Gruen -- Rom as enemy of Iran / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Unity and identity: shaping the past in the Greek Mediterranean / Andrew Erskine -- "Do you look like you belong here?": Asianism at Pergamon and the Makedonian diaspora / Ann Kuttner -- Ethnic portraits in Greco-Roman literature / Gideon Bohak -- Herakles and Melqart: Greeks and Phoenicians in the middle ground / Irad Malkin -- Arcades his Oris: Greek projections on the Italian ethnoscape? / Jonathan M. Hall -- Palmyra and Hatra: "civic" and "tribal" institutions at the Near Eastern steppe frontier / Michael Sommer -- The Theodosian Empire (408-450) and the Arabs: Saracens or Ishmaelites? / Fergus Millar.
ISBN
3515087354 (hd.bd.)
OCLC
  • 63514193
  • SCSB-11294415
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library