Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness and necessarily that of later civilizations in¿uenced by the ancient Greeks which was perpetually in dialogue and tension with other ways of living in groups.
In this book, 14 contributors explore ethnicity the very self-understanding of belonging to a separate body of human beings and how it evolves and consolidates (or ethnogenesis). This inquiry is focussed through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography, in this instance not only as the stylized portrayal of other societies, but also as an exegesis on how ethnocultural di¿erentiation may a¿ect the lives, and even the very existence, of ones own people.
Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus is one facet of a project that intends to bring Portuguese and English-speaking scholars of antiquity into closer cooperation. It has united a cross-section of North American classicists with a distinguished cohort of Portuguese and Brazilian experts on Greek literature and history writing in English.
Preface Introduction Thomas Figueira Part 1: The Methodology of Ethnic
Identification in Herodotus
1. Herodotus Hermeneus and the Translation of
Culture in the Histories Steven Brandwood
2. Language as a Marker of
Ethnicity in Herodotus and Contemporaries Thomas Figueira
3. Protocols of
Ethnic Specification in Herodotus Brian Hill
4. Emotion and Ethnicity in
Herodotus Histories Emily Allen-Hornblower Part 2: Ethnicity among the
Greeks
5. Mages and Ionians Revisited Gregory Nagy
6. Freedom and Culture in
Herodotus Rosaria Vignolo Munson
7. Cosmopolitanism and Contingency in
Herodotus: Myth and Tragedy in the Fourth Book of the Histories Alexandre
Agnolon
8. A Goddess for the Greeks. Demeter as Identity Factor in Herodotus
Nuno Simões Rodrigues Part 3: Ethnic Identity among the Barbaroi
9.
Herodotus Memphite Sources Rogério de Sousa
10. The Greeks as seen from the
East. Xerxes European Enemy Maria de Fátima Silva
11. Mirages of Ethnicity
and the Distant North in Book Four of the Histories: Hyperboreans,
Arimaspians and Issedones Renaud Gagné
12. Ethnicity in Herodotus. The Story
of Helen through the Egyptians Eyes Maria do Céu Fialho Part 4: Reflections
of Herodotean Ethnic Historiography
13. Barbarians, Greekness, and Wisdom:
The Afterlife of Croesus Debate with Solon Delfim Leão
14. Scientific
Discourse in Herodotus Book II of Histories and its Reflection in the Age of
New World Discovery Carmen Soares. Index of Ancient Sources Subject Index
Thomas Figueira is Distinguished Professor of Classics and of Ancient History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.
Carmen Soares is Professor (Professora Catedrática) of Classics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Scientific Coordinator of the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the same university.
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