EAN: 9783111115900

IDENTITIES ETHNICITIES AND GENDER IN ANTIQUITY ...

The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into
contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious
identification of ways of life  customs  traditions  and other forms of society as one's own
specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from
more or less distant lands  described as very 'different'. Since all societies are structured
by the division between the sexes in every field of public and private activity  the modern
concept of 'gender' is a key comparator to be considered when investigating how the concepts of
identity and ethnicity are articulated in the evaluation of the norms and values of other
cultures. The object of this book is to analyze  at the beginning Western culture  various
examples of the ways the Greeks and Romans deployed these three parameters in the definition of
their identity  both cultural and gendered  by reference to their neighbours and foreign
nations at different times in their history. This study also aims to enrich contemporary
debates by showing that we have yet to learn from the ancients' discussions of social and
cultural issues that are still relevant today.

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