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Ancient Perceptions Of Greek Ethnicity
Author: Malkin, Irad
Series#:5; Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia; Hardback; Book; 21 Halftones
434 pages
Published: September 2001
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674006623

This book is a study of the variable perceptions of Greek collective identity, discussing ancient categories such as blood- and mythically-related primordiality, language, religion, and culture. With less emphasis on dichotomies between Greeks and others, the book considers complex middle grounds of intra-Hellenic perceptions, oppositional identities, and outsiders' views. Although the authors do not seek to provide a litmus test of Greek identity, they do pay close attention to modern theories of ethnicity, its construction, function, and representation, and assess their applicability to views of Greekness in antiquity. From the Archaic period through the Roman Empire, archaeological, anthropological, historical, historiographical, rhetorical, artistic, and literary aspects are


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