Ethnic constructs in antiquity : : the role of power and tradition / / editors Ton Derks & Nico Roymans.
A bold and original examination of the relationships between ethnicity and political power in the ancient world
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Superior document: | Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 13 |
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Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Amsterdam archaeological studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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