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The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy: Greeks Overseas

Autor Mark R. Thatcher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2021
The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy offers the first sustained analysis of the relationship between collective identity and politics in the Greek West during the period c. 600-200 BCE. Greeks defined their communities in multiple and varied ways, including a separate polis identity for each city-state; sub-Hellenic ethnicities such as Dorian and Ionian; regional identities; and an overarching sense of Greekness. Mark Thatcher skillfully untangles the many overlapping strands of these plural identities and carefully analyzes how they relate to each other, presenting a compelling new account of the role of identity in Greek politics. Identity was often created through conflict and was reshaped as political conditions changed. It created legitimacy for kings and tyrants, and it contributed to the decision-making processes of poleis. A series of detailed case studies explore these points by drawing on a wide variety of source material, including historiography, epinician poetry, coinage, inscriptions, religious practices, and material culture. The wide-ranging analysis covers both Sicily and southern Italy, encompassing cities such as Syracuse, Camarina, Croton, and Metapontion; ethnic groups such as the Dorians and Achaeans; and tyrants and politicians from the Deinomenids and Hermocrates to Pyrrhus and Hieron II. Spanning the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, this study is an essential contribution to the history, societies, cultures, and identities of Greek Sicily and southern Italy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197586440
ISBN-10: 0197586449
Pagini: 330
Ilustrații: 34 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 161 x 242 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Greeks Overseas

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

T. presents a thoughtful analysis of the ways by which shifting communal identities impacted political decisions and how different political contexts in turn caused a change in salience for the polis, regional, sub-Hellenic ethnic and Greek identities held by Sicilian and Italian Greeks. These overlapping identities create a four-fold structure for the study, and one of the strengths of the work is T.'s demonstration of the interconnected and interdependent nature of these four identities.

Notă biografică

Mark R. Thatcher is Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Classical Studies, at Boston College.