Description: Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus, Hardcover by Figueira, Thomas (EDT); Soares, Carmen (EDT), ISBN 1138631116, ISBN-13 9781138631113, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 belongingto 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"--
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Book Title: Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus
Number of Pages: 354 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Ancient / General, Ancient / Greece
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Carmen Soares
Subject Area: History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
