Hellenicity

Between Ethnicity and Culture

By: Jonathan M. Hall

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Hardcover | 15 May 2002 | Edition Number 1

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In today's cosmopolitan world, ethnic and national identity has assumed an ever-increasing importance. But how is this identity formed, and how does it change over time?

With Hellenicity, Jonathan M. Hall explores these questions in the context of ancient Greece, drawing on an exceptionally wide range of evidence to determine when, how, why, and to what extent the Greeks conceived themselves as a single people. Hall argues that a subjective sense of Hellenic identity emerged in Greece much later than is normally assumed. For instance, he shows that the four main ethnic subcategories of the ancient Greeks—Akhaians, Ionians, Aiolians, and Dorians—were not primordial survivals from a premigratory period, but emerged in precise historical circumstances during the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. Furthermore, Hall demonstrates that the terms of defining Hellenic identity shifted from ethnic to broader cultural criteria during the course of the fifth century B.C., chiefly due to the influence of Athens, whose citizens formulated a new Athenoconcentric conception of "Greekness."

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"This book represents a very valuable addition to the literature on the ancient Greeks' conceptualization of their own ethnic identity and its relation to their culture....An important and stimulating book." - Kathryn Lomas, Bryn Mawr Classical Review; "Hall's scholarship is throughout deeply impressive, thoroughly informed by the latest theory and expressed in vigorous prose. He writes accessibly for intelligent general readers." - Paul Cartledge, London Magazine"

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Social Discrimination & Inequality History Regional & National History European History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500 Classical History & Civilisation Philosophy Social & Political Philosophy

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List of Maps and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Used in Notes and Bibliography
Preface
Note on Nomenclature and Orthography
Theory and Method in Studying Ethnicity Introduction Defining Ethnicity Discourse and Praxis
Saying and Doing
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?
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
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?
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
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
Dating Early Greek Poets
The Historicity of Early Olympic Victors
Bibliography
Index of Ancient
Sources Index
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