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Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity

By Jonathan M. Hall

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
052158017X, 9780521580175
LCC
DF135 .H33 1997
Open Library ID
OL972693M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1992669 bytes)
Pages
242\242
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The purpose of this book is to show that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural, but social groups whose "origins" in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. This is the first study to treat the subject from a truly interdisciplinary point of view, embracing literature, myth, archaeology, linguistics and social anthropology. It also outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.

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