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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Figueira, Thomas J., editor.

Soares, Carmen (Professor of literature), editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

Conference Name:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

History.

Greeks--Ethnic identity.

Greeks.

Colonies.

Historiography.

Ethnic relations.

Greece--Ethnic relations--Historiography.

Greece.

Greece--Colonies--Historiography.

Herodotus. History.

Herodotus.

Ethnicity in literature.

Ethnicity--Greece--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Thomas Figueira is Distinguished Professor of Classics and of Ancient History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. Carmen Soares is Professor (Professora Catedrt̀ica) of Classics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Scientific Coordinator of the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the same university.

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.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2020).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Francis A. Jackson Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Ethnicity and identity in Herodotus

ISBN:

9781315209081

131520908X

9781351805599

1351805592

9781351805575

1351805576

9781351805582

1351805584

Publisher Number:

99984160025

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