The politics of identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy / Mark R. Thatcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thatcher, Mark R., author.

Series:

Greeks Overseas

Greeks Overseas Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greeks--Italy, Southern--Ethnic identity.

Greeks.

Magna Graecia (Italy)--Civilization.

Magna Graecia (Italy).

Magna Graecia (Italy)--Politics and government.

Italy--Magna Graecia.

Italy--Sicily.

Southern Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity -- polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek -- and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West.

Contents:

cover

Series

The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Maps

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

Scope of Research

Theorizing Identity

A Typology of Identities

Seeking Identities in Antiquity

2. Becoming Achaean in Italy

The First Achaeans

Croton: Athletes and Heroes

Metapontion: Insiders and Outsiders

Conclusion

3. Syracusan Tyranny and Identity Politics

The Tyrant's House and Syracusan Identities

Greeks and Barbarians

Responses to Tyranny

4. Ruling Grain-​Rich Sicily

Myth and Cult

Sicilian Politics

5. Shifting Identities in Thucydides's Sicily

Kinship Diplomacy

Camarina's Polis Identity

Rhetoric and Identity

6. Continuity and Change in the Third Century

Greeks and Barbarians in Southern Italy

Being Syracusan in the Third Century

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-758647-3

0-19-758646-5

OCLC:

1264472419