The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities, 9th to 2nd Centuries BCE.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gooch, Emma, editor.

Ruddick, Jerome, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Debates in archaeology.

Debates in archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Greece--History.

Material culture.

Group identity--Greece--History.

Group identity.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Material culture is the physical trace of what was used to construct and define identities in the past, and is therefore a key source of evidence for archaeologists and ancient historians investigating ancient identities. The focus of this volume is reflective of broader theoretical and methodological shifts in recent cross-disciplinary explorations of identity. Through the use of case studies, each chapter demonstrates the benefits and crucial need to embrace inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches when investigating life and society in ancient Greece. In particular, this book covers the ever-increasing spectrum of identities across the ancient Greek world, ranging from collective groups, such as women, migrants, children and slaves, to individual figures. Using archaeological, iconographic and textual material as the basis of each exploration, the contributors seek to understand the intersectional nature of what it meant to be an individual or group within a recognised social identity in ancient Greece. More specifically, this involves the analysis of various types of material culture such as artefacts from burials, excavated settlements, figurines, statuary, painted pottery, small finds and monuments. The contributors study the material using geo-spatial and architectural methods, along with more traditional approaches, such as epigraphy. Among other conclusions, the chapters investigate the experiences of identity - what the experience of having a particular identity was like, as far as we can ascertain - in ancient Greece, as represented by the archaeological material record.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Finding Identities in Materiality

Introduction: Identity and Materiality in the Ancient Greek World

Emma Gooch and Jerome Ruddick (Newcastle University, UK)

1. Intersectional Dressing: Materialising Identities in the Ancient Greek World

Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge, UK)

Part 2: Identities in and of the State

2. Materiality and Identity in Fifth Century Athenian Inscribed Accounts

Eddie Jones (University of Oxford, UK)

3. Identities on the Acropolis of Athens: The Case of the Athenian Heroes

Ioannis Mitsios (University of Athens, Greece)

Part 3: Identities in Houses and Settlements

4. A Paradox of Visibility: Identifying Non-Elites in Early Iron Age Cretan Society

Catharine Judson (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)

5. Domestic Space, Behaviour and Identity: A Contextual Approach

Selin G&&or (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Part 4: Identities Beyond Greece

6. A Death Out of Place: Burial, Identity, and Mobility in Ancient Greece

Camille Reiko Acosta (University of California, USA)

7. The Feminine Semiotics of Dedication at Epizephyrian Locri (6th-3rd centuries BCE): From Pinakes to Votive Epigram

Sherry Lee and Daphne Martin (Princeton University, USA and University of Cambridge, UK)

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-350-44283-6

1-350-44284-4

1-350-44282-8

OCLC:

1520506690