Ethnic constructs in antiquity : the role of power and tradition / editors, Ton Derks & Nico Roymans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethnic expression on the early Iron Age and early archaic Greek mainland : where should we be looking? / Catherine Morgan -- The Ionians in the archaic period : shifting identities in a changing world / Jan Paul Crielaard -- From Athenian identity to European ethnicity : the cultural biography of the myth of Marathon / Hans-Joachim Gehrke -- Multi-ethnicity and ethnic segregation in Hellenistic Babylon / Bert van der Spek -- The Galatians in the Roman Empire : historical tradition and ethnic identity in Hellenistic and and Roman Asia Minor / Karl Strobel -- Material culture and plural identity in early Roman southern Italy / Douwe Yntema -- Foundation myths in Roman Palestine : traditions and reworkings / Nicole Belayche -- Ethnic discourses on the frontiers of Roman Africa / Dick Whittaker -- Cruptorix and his kind : talking ethnicity on the middle ground / Greg Woolf -- Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman Empire / Nico Roymans -- Ethnic identity in the Roman frontier : the epigraphy of Batavi and other Lower Rhine tribes / Ton Derks -- Grave goods, ethnicity, and the rhetoric of burial rites in late antique northern Gaul / Frans Theuws -- The early-medieval use of ethnic names from classical antiquity : the case of the Frisians / Jos Bazelmans.

A bold and original examination of the relationships between ethnicity and political power in the ancient world.

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