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Phoenicians among Others: Why Migrants Mattered in the Ancient Mediterranean

Autor Denise Demetriou
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 aug 2023
Phoenicians among Others provides the first history of Phoenician immigrants in the ancient Mediterranean from the fourth to the first centuries BCE. Through an examination of inscriptions, many bilingual in Phoenician and Greek or Egyptian, Phoenicians among Others demonstrates how mobility and migration challenged migrants and states alike. Far from being excluded, and despite facing prejudices, immigrants mobilized adaptive strategies to mediate their experiences and encourage a sense of membership and belonging, constructed new identities, and transformed the societies they joined.By integrating the voices and histories of immigrants with those of the states in which they lived, Denise Demetriou highlights the diverse ways that migrants influenced the development of societies, introduced new institutions, shaped the policies of their home and host states, made notions of citizenship more fluid, and changed the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197634851
ISBN-10: 0197634850
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 4 maps + 21 halftones
Dimensiuni: 236 x 165 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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In this clearly written and methodologically sound study, Demetriou gives voice to one of the most important communities in the ancient Mediterranean, the Phoenicians. Zooming in on their own inscriptions, this is a crucial contribution to the study of migrant communities during the Classical-Hellenistic periods and of the Phoenician's diasporic identities. Phoenicians among Others is simply eye-opening and will illuminate the interpretation of similar multi-cultural contexts in the ancient world.
Telling stories about migration can challenge the lies and fear it provokes, and it is a sad fact that we know more about ancient Phoenician-speaking migrants than we do about many of those found-and lost-in the Mediterranean today. Denise Demetriou's radical work explores how mobility changed these people, their new hosts, and their old homes. It reveals the breadth of ancient history beyond Greece and Rome, but it also suggests that notions of citizenship today can be established in negotiation with immigrants rather than simply in reaction against them.
This innovative monograph will appeal to everyone interested in Greek history...Highly recommended.
Phoenicians among Others is an illuminating book not only for Phoenicians living throughout the Mediterranean, but also those in Phoenicia,... It is a valuable contribution of ancient social history.
Valuable and stimulating... Original and well developed in its objectives and in the themes addressed.
A splendid book on Phoenician immigrant communities across the ancient Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE... This thought-provoking book should also make us ponder whether the Phoenician model can be applied to other migrant communities, or is in fact one model among many.

Notă biografică

Denise Demetriou is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, where she holds the Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Chair in Ancient Greek History. Her previous publications include Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia.