A survey of European civilization, ancient times to the present / Part I. To 1660 by Wallace K. Ferguson ... Part II. Since 1660 by Geoffrey Bruun ...
Wallace K. Ferguson (Wallace Klippert), 1902-1983
ספרIn ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent. In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in the construction of political and cultural identity. He draws examples both from the literary and epigraphical records and shows the fundamental difference between the two. He also expands his study into the question of Greek credulity—how much of these founding myths did they actually believe, and how much was just a useful fiction for diplomatic relations? Of central importance is the authority the Greeks gave to myth, whether to elaborate narratives or to a simple acknowledgment of an ancestor. Most Greeks could readily accept ties of interstate kinship even when local origin narratives could not be reconciled smoothly or when myths used to explain the link between communities were only "discovered" upon the actual occasion of diplomacy, because such claims had been given authority in the collective memory of the Greeks.
כותר |
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece [electronic resource] / Lee E. Patterson. |
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מהדורה |
1st ed. |
מוציא לאור |
Austin : University of Texas Press |
שנה |
2010 |
הערות |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and indexes. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Kinship and Constructed Identities -- 2. Credulity and Historical Causation -- 3. Kinship Myth in the Literary Sources -- 4. Kinship Myth in the Literary Sources -- 5. Alexander the Great -- 6. Epigraphical Evidence of Kinship Diplomacy -- 7. Epigraphical Evidence of Kinship Diplomacy -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendix One. The Historical Context of Plutarch, solon 8–10 -- Appendix Two. Greek Myth and Macedonian Identity -- Appendix Three. A Tale of Two Phoci -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (272 p.) |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997012490070105171 |
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