Ethnicity in the ancient world : did it matter?

1. Verfasser: Gruen, Erich S. , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Umfang/Format: x, 265 pages ; 24 cm
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Were barbarians barbaric?
  • 2. Herodotus and Greekness
  • 3. The racial judgments of Polybius
  • 4. Rome's multiple identities and tangled perspectives
  • 5. Constructed ethnicities in republican Italy
  • 6. The chosen people and mixed marriages
  • 7. Did hellenistic Jews consider themselves a race or a religion?
  • 8. Philo and Jewish ethnicity
  • 9. The ethnic vocabulary of Josephus
  • 10. The racial reflections of Paul
  • 11. Christians as a "third race"?
  • 12. Conclusion.