Identities in Antiquity

Joseph Skinner, Vicky Manolopoulou, Christina Tsouparopoulou (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

558 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-54516-8 (ISBN)

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Identities in Antiquity is multi-disciplinary platform for the synthetic study of ancient identities, set in a more rounded and inclusive notion of Antiquity, spanning the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond from the third millennium BCE until the early Middle Ages.

Identities in Antiquity is a multi-disciplinary platform for the synthetic study of ancient identities, set in a more rounded and inclusive notion of antiquity.

The volume showcases methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of ancient identities by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and career stages. In doing so, it promotes a more holistic approach to the study of ancient identities, facilitating comparisons between different periods and disciplines and generating new knowledge in the process. Chapters illustrating the intersecting, multifaceted, and mutable (or else highly immutable) nature of ancient identities address themes such as ethnicity, race, gender, mobility, religion, and elite and sub-elite identities – most notably that of the enslaved – in case studies spanning the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond, from the third millennium BCE until the early Middle Ages.

The volume is suitable for students and scholars working on the Ancient Near East, the Graeco-Roman Worlds, Late Antiquity, and Byzantium, offering a valuable contribution to the study of past identities and the internal workings of ancient societies.

Joseph Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Newcastle University. His publications include The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus (New York, 2012), and (as co-editor) Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches (London, 2013) and Herodotus and the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 2020). Vicky Manolopoulou is Research Fellow in Environmental History at Ca’Foscari University, Venice. Her work centres on the intersection of landscape studies, environmental humanities, and the history of emotions, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium. Key research interests include human environment interactions, emotions, ritual, and mnemonic landscapes. Christina Tsouparopoulou is Assistant Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University and Editor of Near Eastern Archaeology. Her work bridges the material, visual, and textual culture of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean.

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Joseph Skinner, Vicky Manolopoulou, and Christina Tsouparopoulou

PART I Approaching ancient identities

1 Challenging essentialism: disentangling ancient and modern notions of ethnicity

Johannes Siapkas

2 Elite identities: Greece and Egypt in comparative perspective

Matthew Haysom

3 The identities of enslaved persons

Kostas Vlassopoulos

4 Personal names and identity: a socio-onomastic approach to naming practices in the ancient world

Andreas Gavrielatos

5 Religious identities in ancient cities

Jörg Rüpke

6 Open dynamic stewardship: alternatives to understanding diversity and transformation

Elena Isayev

PART II The ancient Near East

7 Construction of gender identities in Mesopotamia

Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Saana Svärd

8 Mercantile and religious identities in Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age

Yağmur Heffron and Nancy Highcock

9 The identities of enslaved persons in ancient Mesopotamia

J. Nicholas Reid

10 Exilic communities in Babylonia

Laurie Pearce

11 Ancient Judaism: nation, ethnicity, or religion?

Erich S. Gruen

PART III The Mediterranean world until the age of the successors

12 A community of practice perspective on craft production and culture change in the Bronze Age Cyclades

Natalie Abell

13 Reconstructing Phoenician identities: a glass half-full

Carolina López-Ruiz

14 Transcultural tokens of identity: the mechanics of crossing borders in the ancient Mediterranean

Denise Demetriou

15 Classical Greek racism 294

Thomas Harrison

16 Race and the Athenian metic

Rebecca Futo Kennedy

17 Greek local identity and Greek local history

Daniel Tober

PART IV The Roman world: from early republic to late empire

18 Roman aristocratic family identity in the Late Republic and Early Empire

Gary D. Farney

19 Identities of enslaved persons in the Roman world

Christer Bruun

20 Identity construction in Alexandria: Greeks, Jews and Romans

Kimberley Czajkowski

21 Roman military identities

Andrew Gardner

PART V From Late Antiquity until the Early Middle Ages: Rome, Byzantium and others

22 Peripheral identities: ethnicity, Anglo-Saxons and the Stützarmfibeln

James Gerrard

23 The identity of the Huns

Hyun Jin Kim

24 Sacrifice, banquets, and drunken elephants: the problem of Christian identity in Libanius’s Oration 30

Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos

25 The open secret of Byzantium’s national identity

Anthony Kaldellis

26 Demarcating Rome: the papal strategy of Othering and the re-invention of Greeks

Clemens Gantner

27 The case of Manuel I Komnenos: articulating identity through gender, sexuality, and racialization

Roland Betancourt

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Rewriting Antiquity
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 53 Halftones, black and white; 53 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1250 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-54516-3 / 1138545163
ISBN-13	978-1-138-54516-8 / 9781138545168
Zustand	Neuware