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Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
01 Jan 1997-
TL;DR: The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view 3. The discursive dimension of ethnic identity 4. Ethnicity and genealogy: an Argolic case-study as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: 1. Phrasing the problem 2. The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view 3. The discursive dimension of ethnic identity 4. Ethnography and genealogy: an Argolic case-study 5. Ethnicity and archaeology 6. Ethnicity and linguistics 7. Conclusion.
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14 Jun 2018TL;DR: In the early Hellenistic Peloponnese, the Macedonian kings did not suppress freedom or exploit the peninsula economically, but generally presented themselves as patrons of Greek identity.
Abstract: Using all available evidence - literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological - this study offers a new analysis of the early Hellenistic Peloponnese. The conventional picture of the Macedonian kings as oppressors, and of the Peloponnese as ruined by warfare and tyranny, must be revised. The kings did not suppress freedom or exploit the peninsula economically, but generally presented themselves as patrons of Greek identity. Most of the regimes characterised as 'tyrannies' were probably, in reality, civic governorships, and the Macedonians did not seek to overturn tradition or build a new imperial order. Contrary to previous analyses, the evidence of field survey and architectural remains points to an active, even thriving civic culture and a healthy trading economy under elite patronage. Despite the rise of federalism, particularly in the form of the Achaean league, regional identity was never as strong as loyalty to one's city-state (polis).
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TL;DR: The Salmacis epigram, a late Hellenistic verse inscription recently found in Bodrum, relates the foundation of Halicarnassus and lists the achievements of the city's authors.
Abstract: This paper proposes a general analysis of the structure
and imagery of the Salmacis epigram, a late Hellenistic verse inscription recently found in Bodrum which relates the foundation of Halicarnassus and lists the achievements of the city9s authors. Focusing on the first part of the poem, I argue that the epigram can be seen to trace a complex symbolic map of the city in space and time. On a first level of reference the poem9s episodes of foundation are consistently represented as the aitia of ritual events. Superimposed on the catalogue of foundation episodes is a catalogue of the ritual events that commemorated them, and our
epigram uses this level of reference to ground its portrait of Halicarnassus in the contemporary ritual life of the polis. In this way the poem is able to locate the city in the space of cult and to inscribe the linear time of primordial origins in the recurrent present of ritual practice. On a complementary level of reference, finally, the different episodes of foundation also function as so many statements of kinship——every founder effectively ties the city to another region and another people. As a parallel to the local space of ritual, then, the combination of these statements of kinship is made to locate the city in the wider space of ethnic geography. Behind a seemingly simple catalogic form, the Salmacis epigram actually combines two levels of reference to achieve a significant and multifaceted representation of a late Hellenistic city9s cultural memory.
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01 Nov 2006
TL;DR: The use of the termine "Poenus" in the context of identità autoattribuita is discussed in this paper, where it is shown that it is problematic to use it in the sense that it can be seen as associating a termine with a large number of stereotipi.
Abstract: Il termine ‘punico’ (o equivalenti), derivato dal latino ‘Poenus’, e un luogo comune. Il suo uso in ogni caso e frequentemente poco chiaro e contraddittorio. Questo articolo ha due finalita principali: in primo luogo vuole chiarificare Papplicazione del termine ‘punico’, sia nell'uso antico, sia in quello moderno, insieme con termini affini e associati; in secondo luogo intende dimostrare che nell'evidenza sopravvissuta, il termine ‘poenus’ non fu usato prima del I secolo d.C. come etichetta di identita autoattribuita. Una parte cruciale di questa dimostrazione e costituita dall'esame dell'evidenza epigrafica circa l'attribuzione di identita nell'antico Mediterraneo. Si prova che una simile evidenza e in genere sottostimata in rapporto all'uso che si fa delle fonti letterarie per lo studio dell'identita nel mondo classico. L'utilizzo di ‘Poenus’ e quasi interamente letterario; per cui esso e strettamente associato ad una gran quantita di stereotipi (generalmente negativi). Cio rende il termine problematico nell'uso come un termine descrittivo culturale nella letteratura moderna.
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...In saying this, I am certainly not advocating a general principle of granting to literary evidence a primacy in all approaches to antiquity; it is simply that the very nature of ethnic identity demands this' (Hall, 1997: 182, original emphasis)....
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15 Jun 2010
TL;DR: Middleton as discussed by the authors examines the consequences of the collapse thematically, covering settlements, population mobility, rulership, elites and social structure, and looks at how these played out in both palatial and non-palatial areas.
Abstract: The collapse of palatial society at the end of the Greek Bronze Age in c.1200 BC has long been a subject of fascination and contention. This monograph re-evaluates the different theories on this collapse and possible areas of continuity, making full use of recent archaeological data as well as the latest theoretical work on collapse in the historical and archaeological record. Middleton examines the consequences of the collapse thematically, covering settlements, population mobility, rulership, elites and social structure, and looks at how these played out in both palatial and non-palatial areas. His study concentrates on mainland Greece, for the most part excluding Crete from the discussion.
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01 May 2016
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...704 Strobel, "The Galatians in the Roman Empire," 120-21; Hall, Hellenicity, 1-29; J. McInerney, "Ethnos and Ethnicity in Early Greece," in Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, ed. I. Malkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 51-73; S. Mitchell, "Ethnicity, Acculturation and Empire in Roman and Late Roman Asia Minor," in Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity, ed. S. Mitchell and G. Greatrex (London: Duckworth, 2000), 117-51; T. H. Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (London: Pluto Press [2002], reprint of 1993 edition), 4....
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TL;DR: Sian Jones as mentioned in this paper argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation, and presents a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences.
Abstract: The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeological remains. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record, with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences. In doing so, she argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation.
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