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Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia

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Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia - Mac Sweeney, Naoíse
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This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and changing ways in which civic identity was constructed in Ionia, relating this to the wider discourses about ethnicity and cultural difference that were current in the Greek world at this time. The Ionian cities seem to have rejected oppositional models of cultural difference which set in contrast East and West, Europe and Asia, Greek and Barbarian, opting instead for a ...

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Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia 2019, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108729963

Trade paperback

Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia 2013, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107037496

Hardcover