Cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Erich S. Gruen.
Material type: TextSeries: Issues & debatesPublisher: Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2011]Description: vii, 536 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780892369690; 0892369698Subject(s): National characteristics, Mediterranean | Group identity -- Mediterranean Region | Civilization, Ancient | Civilization, Classical | Civilisation ancienne | Civilization, Classical | Civilization | Civilization, Ancient | Group identity | National characteristics, Mediterranean | Antike | Kulturelle Identitat | Kulturelle Identitat | Kulturkontakt | Fremdbild | National characteristics, Mediterranean | Group identity -- Mediterranean Region | Civilization, Ancient | Nationalkaraktar -- historia -- Medelhavslanderna -- forntiden | Kulturell identitet -- historia -- Medelhavslanderna -- forntiden | Mediterranean Region -- Civilization | Mediterranee, Region de la -- Civilisation | Mediterranean Region | Mittelmeerraum | Mittelmeerraum | Mediterranean Region -- Civilization | Medelhavslanderna -- kultur- och samhallsliv -- forntidenGenre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung. | Geschichte | AufsatzsammlungDDC classification: 938 LOC classification: DE71 | .C85 2011Other classification: 6,12 | 6,14 | NG 1600 | NF 3494Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"2011, 2018 J. Paul Getty Trust. Second printing"--Title verso page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ways of becoming Arcadian : Arcadian foundation myths in the Mediterranean / Tanja S. Scheer -- Pictorial foundation myths in Roman Asia Minor / Pascale Linant de Bellefonds -- Myths, images, and the typology of identities in early Greek art / Tonio Holscher -- Herodotus and Persia / Erich S. Gruen -- Embracing ambiguity in the world of Athens and Persia / Margaret Cool Root -- "Manners makyth man" : diacritical drinking in Achaemenid Anatolia / Margaret C. Miller -- Keeping up with the Persians : between cultural identity and Persianization in the Achaemenid period / Maria Brosius -- The limits of Persianization : some reflections on cultural links in the Persian empire / Christopher Tuplin -- The pity of war : representations of Gauls and Germans in Roman art / I.M. Ferris -- Borealism : Caesar, Seneca, Tacitus, and the Roman discourse about the Germanic north / Christopher B. Krebs -- Ethnicity in Roman portraiture / Elizabeth Bartman -- Saving the barbarian / Greg Woolf -- Surviving by the book : the language of the Greek Bible and Jewish identity / Tessa Rajak -- Jewish identity at the limus : the earliest reception of the dura europos synagogue paintings / Steven Fine -- Keeping the dead in their place : mortuary practices and Jewish cultural identity in Roman North Africa / Karen B. Stern.
"Egyptian" priests in Roman Italy / Molly Swetnam-Burland -- Aegyptiaca in Rome : adventus and romanitas / Penelope J.E. Davies -- On gods and earth : the Tophet and the construction of a new identity in Punic Carthage / Corinne Bonnet -- The cultures of the Tophet : identification and identity in the Phoenician diaspora / Josephine Crawley Quinn -- Pompeian identities : between Oscan, Samnite, Greek, Roman, and Punic / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill -- Sharing new worlds : mixed identities around the Adriatic (sixth to fourth centuries B.C.E.) / Maria Cecilia D'Ercole -- Contesting sacred space in Lebanese temples / Kevin Butcher -- The self as other : performing humor in ancient Greek art / Ada Cohen -- Attitudes toward provincial intellectuals in the Roman empire / Benjamin Isaac.
Cultural identity is a slippery and elusive concept. When applied to the collective self-consciousness among peoples or nations, it becomes all the more difficult to define or grasp. In recent decades scholars have focused on the "other" - the alien, the unfamiliar, the different, perceived or conceived as the opposite - to highlight the virtues and advantages of the self. While this influential idea continues to hold sway, the time has come for a more nuanced and complex understanding of how the various societies of the ancient Mediterranean shaped their sense of identity.