Cultural borrowings and ethnic appropriations in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen [ed]

Gruen, S. Erich [ed]

2005, First Edition. Stuttgart : F. Steiner. Very good copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #447947
ISBN: 3515087354

Series; Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 8. Physical description; 314 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Notes; "The volume grew out of a conference held at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps in the summer of 2003"--P. [7]. Contributions in English and German. Contents; Semiramis in history and legend: a case study in interpretation of an Assyrian historical tradition, with observations on archetypes in ancient historiography, on Euhemerism before Euhemerus, and on the so-called Greek ethnographic style / Stephanie Dalley -- Genesis 1-11 and its Mesopotamian problem / Ronald Hendel -- Periergia: Egyptian reactions to Greek curiosity / Jan Assmann -- Heroen als Grenzgänger zwischen Griechen und Barbaren / Hans-Joachim Gehrke -- Barbarian lineage in classical Greek mythology and art: Pelops, Danaos and Kadmos / M.C. Miller -- Persia through the Jewish looking-glass / Erich S. Gruen -- Rom as enemy of Iran / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Unity and identity: shaping the past in the Greek Mediterranean / Andrew Erskine -- "Do you look like you belong here?": Asianism at Pergamon and the Makedonian diaspora / Ann Kuttner -- Ethnic portraits in Greco-Roman literature / Gideon Bohak -- Herakles and Melqart: Greeks and Phoenicians in the middle ground / Irad Malkin -- Arcades his Oris: Greek projections on the Italian ethnoscape? / Jonathan M. Hall -- Palmyra and Hatra: "civic" and "tribal" institutions at the Near Eastern steppe frontier / Michael Sommer -- The Theodosian Empire (408-450) and the Arabs: Saracens or Ishmaelites? / Fergus Millar. Subjects; Culture diffusion ; Congresses. Civilization, Ancient ; Congresses.

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