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oapen-20.500.12657-880512024-03-28T14:03:25Z Chapter 8 A goddess for the Greeks Rodrigues, Nuno Thutmose III,Young Men,Demeter Thesmophoros,Demeter Eleusinia,Book III,Demeter’s Sanctuary,Female Genital Cutting,Thriasian Plain,Athenaion Politeia,Lyric Poet Stesichorus,Greek Ethnic Identity,Ethnic Identifier,Naval Forces,Herodotean Narrative,Chthonic Goddess,Protective Goddess,Doric,Doric Dialect,Greek Renegades,Ionian Coast,Spartan King,Delphic Oracle,Violated thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness – and necessarily that of later civilizations influenced by the ancient Greeks – which was perpetually in dialogue and tension with other ways of living in groups. In this book, 14 contributors explore ethnicity – the very self-understanding of belonging to a separate body of human beings – and how it evolves and consolidates (or ethnogenesis). This inquiry is focussed through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography, in this instance not only as the stylized portrayal of other societies, but also as an exegesis on how ethnocultural differentiation may affect the lives, and even the very existence, of one’s own people. Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus is one facet of a project that intends to bring Portuguese and English-speaking scholars of antiquity into closer cooperation. It has united a cross-section of North American classicists with a distinguished cohort of Portuguese and Brazilian experts on Greek literature and history writing in English. 2024-02-28T12:50:40Z 2024-02-28T12:50:40Z 2020 chapter 9781138631113 9781032337210 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88051 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9781315209081_10.4324_9781315209081-11.pdf Taylor & Francis Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus Routledge 10.4324/9781315209081 10.4324/9781315209081 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 7eecf668-67bd-45c5-925d-69ec826bec38 9781138631113 9781032337210 Routledge 22 open access
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Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness – and necessarily that of later civilizations influenced by the ancient Greeks – which was perpetually in dialogue and tension with other ways of living in groups.
In this book, 14 contributors explore ethnicity – the very self-understanding of belonging to a separate body of human beings – and how it evolves and consolidates (or ethnogenesis). This inquiry is focussed through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography, in this instance not only as the stylized portrayal of other societies, but also as an exegesis on how ethnocultural differentiation may affect the lives, and even the very existence, of one’s own people.
Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus is one facet of a project that intends to bring Portuguese and English-speaking scholars of antiquity into closer cooperation. It has united a cross-section of North American classicists with a distinguished cohort of Portuguese and Brazilian experts on Greek literature and history writing in English.
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