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Hellenicity - Between Ethnicity and Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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Hellenicity - Between Ethnicity and Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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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 of 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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