Hellenicity
Between Ethnicity and Culture
Contents
List of Maps and Figures
List of Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography
Preface
Note on Nomenclature and Orthography
1. Theory and Method in Studying Ethnicity
Introduction
Defining Ethnicity
Discourse and Praxis: Saying and Doing
2. The Question of Origins
Greek Views of Greek Beginnings
The Invention of the Indo-Europeans
The Coming of the Greeks
The Becoming of the Greeks
Ethnic Unity in the Bronze Age?
3. Hellen’s Sons: Blood and Belonging in Early Greece
The Akhaians of South Italy and the Peloponnese
The Ionians and Aiolians of Asia Minor
The Dorian Invasion: Fact or Fiction?
The Origins of Dorian Self-Consciousness
4. Identity and Alterity? The View from the Margins
’Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea’: Encounters in the Mediterranean
Aggression and Accommodation
’When Two Worlds Collide’: The Question of Acculturation
Barbarophonoi: The Linguistic Factor
Perceptions of Others: The Literary Testimony
Identity at the Margins?
5. Land and Peoplehood: The Ethnogenesis of the Hellenes
What’s in a Name? ’Hellas’ and ’Hellenes’
Commune Graeciae consilium: Delphi and Hellas
Patrai and genos: Olympia and the Hellenes
The Birth of a Nation
6. From Ethnicity to Culture
The Barbarian Enters the Stage
The Ascendancy of Culture
Panhellenism and the ’School of Hellas’
Looking Ahead: The Hellenistic Period
Epilogue
Appendix A: Dating Early Greek Poets
Appendix B: The Historicity of Early Olympic Victors
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
Index
List of Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography
Preface
Note on Nomenclature and Orthography
1. Theory and Method in Studying Ethnicity
Introduction
Defining Ethnicity
Discourse and Praxis: Saying and Doing
2. The Question of Origins
Greek Views of Greek Beginnings
The Invention of the Indo-Europeans
The Coming of the Greeks
The Becoming of the Greeks
Ethnic Unity in the Bronze Age?
3. Hellen’s Sons: Blood and Belonging in Early Greece
The Akhaians of South Italy and the Peloponnese
The Ionians and Aiolians of Asia Minor
The Dorian Invasion: Fact or Fiction?
The Origins of Dorian Self-Consciousness
4. Identity and Alterity? The View from the Margins
’Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea’: Encounters in the Mediterranean
Aggression and Accommodation
’When Two Worlds Collide’: The Question of Acculturation
Barbarophonoi: The Linguistic Factor
Perceptions of Others: The Literary Testimony
Identity at the Margins?
5. Land and Peoplehood: The Ethnogenesis of the Hellenes
What’s in a Name? ’Hellas’ and ’Hellenes’
Commune Graeciae consilium: Delphi and Hellas
Patrai and genos: Olympia and the Hellenes
The Birth of a Nation
6. From Ethnicity to Culture
The Barbarian Enters the Stage
The Ascendancy of Culture
Panhellenism and the ’School of Hellas’
Looking Ahead: The Hellenistic Period
Epilogue
Appendix A: Dating Early Greek Poets
Appendix B: The Historicity of Early Olympic Victors
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
Index
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