TY - BOOK AU - Figueira,Thomas AU - Figueira,Thomas AU - Soares,Carmen AU - Soares,Carmen TI - Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus SN - 9781032337210 PY - 2020/// PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Ancient history KW - bicssc KW - Ethnicity Ethnography Historiography Herodotus Identity Anthropology Greece,Herodotus' ethnographic project,Greek identity,fifth-century ethnicity,self-awareness,Thutmose III,Book III,Female Genital Cutting,Young Men,Naval Forces,Demeter Thesmophoros,Athenaion Politeia,Derveni Papyrus,Demeter Eleusinia,Greek Ethnic Identity,Herodotean Narrative,Doric Dialect,Solon's Archonship,Demeter's Sanctuary,Violated,Ionian Revolt,non-Greek Languages,Olive Tree Leaves,Persian Empire,Asiatic Greeks,Greek Enemy,Resistance Myths,Thriasian Plain,Diogenes Laertius,Common Language N1 - Free-to-read N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88050 ER -