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Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic
group when they come into contact with a stranger or another
people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification
of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as
one's own specific cultural features and the construction of others
as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands,
described as very 'different'. Since all societies are structured
by the division between the sexes in every field of public and
private activity, the modern concept of 'gender' is a key
comparator to be considered when investigating how the concepts of
identity and ethnicity are articulated in the evaluation of the
norms and values of other cultures. The object of this book is to
analyze, at the beginning Western culture, various examples of the
ways the Greeks and Romans deployed these three parameters in the
definition of their identity, both cultural and gendered, by
reference to their neighbours and foreign nations at different
times in their history. This study also aims to enrich contemporary
debates by showing that we have yet to learn from the ancients'
discussions of social and cultural issues that are still relevant
today.
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