Kinship in Thucydides. Intercommunal ties and historical narrative / maria Fragoulaki.

This volume explores the relationship between Thucydides and ancient Greek historiography, sociology, and culture. Presenting a new interpretation of the Peloponnesian War and its historian, it focuses on the role of emotions and ethics in the context of political history and ethnic conflicts. Drawing on modern anthropological enquiries on kinship and the sociology of ethnicity and emotions, and on scholarly work on kinship diplomacy and Greek ethnicity, it argues that inter-communal kinship has a far more pervasive importance in Thucydides than has so far been acknowledged. Through close readings and contextualization of a variety of sources, Fragoulaki discusses the various ways in which ancient Greek communities could be related to each other (colonization, genealogies, belonging to the same ethnic group, socio-cultural symbols, political mechanisms, and institutions) and the largely cultural, emotional, and ethical expression of these ties.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Note on Translations""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1 A typology of intercommunal kinship""; ""1.2 The cultural, ethical, and emotional dimension of kinship""; ""1.3 The field of research: theoretical underpinnings and topics of investigation""; ""1.4 Outline of the book""; ""2. Preliminaries: Kinship Terminology in Thucydides""; ""3. Korinth and Its Colonies: Charting xyngeneia""; ""3.1 The introduction of the kinship theme in the History""; ""3.1.1 The Archaeology (1. 1�19)""; ""3.1.2 The Kerkyraika episode (1. 24�55)""

""3.1.3 The Kerkyraika debate (1. 32�43): The ethical and emotional language of xyngeneia in performance""""3.2 Korinth and Syracuse""; ""3.2.1 Hermokrates� speeches at Gela (4. 59�64) and Kamarina (6. 76�80)""; ""4. Aiolian Kinship: xyngeneia and Relatedness in the Mytilene and the Plataia Episodes""; ""4.1 The revolt of Mytilene (3. 2�6, 8�19, 3. 25�50)""; ""4.2 The Plataian debate and the end of Plataia (3. 52�68)""; ""5. Sparta�s Kinship Ties""; ""5.1 Sparta�s ties of xyngeneia""; ""5.1.1 Mainland Greece and the Aegean""; ""5.1.2 The West""

""5.2 Sparta�s ties of relatedness""""5.2.1 Achaians""; ""5.2.2 Ionians""; ""5.2.3 Greeks of the West""; ""6. Athens� Kinship Ties""; ""6.1 Athens� ties of xyngeneia""; ""6.1.1 Ionianism and autochthony""; ""6.1.2 Thucydides 2. 15: Narrative integration, date of composition, and Athenian identity""; ""6.2 Athens� ties of relatedness""; ""6.2.1 Achaians""; ""6.2.2 Mixed realities of the mainland: Greeks and non-Greeks""; ""7. Mixed Realities of the West: Greeks and Non-Greeks""; ""7.1 Italy""; ""7.2 Sicily""; ""8. Conclusion""; ""Appendices""

""I. Athens� Kleruchies, Kinship, and Thucydides""""II. Index of Cities in the History: Intercommunal xyngeneia in Thucydides and Herodotus""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index Locorum""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""X""; ""Z""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""

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