| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 311 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Series |
Greeks overseas |
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Greeks overseas.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Scope of Research -- Theorizing Identity -- A Typology of Identities -- Seeking Identities in Antiquity -- 2. Becoming Achaean in Italy -- The First Achaeans -- Croton: Athletes and Heroes -- Metapontion: Insiders and Outsiders -- Conclusion -- 3. Syracusan Tyranny and Identity Politics -- The Tyrant's House and Syracusan Identities -- Greeks and Barbarians -- Responses to Tyranny -- Conclusion -- 4. Ruling Grain-​Rich Sicily -- Myth and Cult -- Sicilian Politics -- Conclusion -- 5. Shifting Identities in Thucydides's Sicily -- Kinship Diplomacy -- Camarina's Polis Identity -- Rhetoric and Identity -- Conclusion -- 6. Continuity and Change in the Third Century -- Greeks and Barbarians in Southern Italy -- Being Syracusan in the Third Century -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity -- polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek -- and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed July 7, 2022) |
| Subject |
Greeks -- Italy, Southern -- Ethnic identity
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Greeks -- Italy -- Sicily -- Ethnic identity
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Civilization
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Greeks -- Ethnic identity
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| SUBJECT |
Magna Graecia (Italy) -- Civilization
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| Subject |
Italy -- Magna Graecia
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Italy -- Sicily
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Southern Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197586464 |
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0197586465 |
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9780197586471 |
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0197586473 |
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9780197586457 |
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0197586457 |
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