A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 243 simply “native.” Later examples can be found, particularly in the work of Pausanias, who was f ...

244 James Roy interest was enquiries by Greek intellectuals into whether communities, both Greek and non-Greek, could be conside ...

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 245 Athenians being originally of non-Greek Pelasgian stock. Thucydides acknowledges Athenian auto ...

246 James Roy This bald summary does not do justice to the play, but it brings out some of its complex- ities. On the one hand, ...

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 247 Greek Autochthony Outside Athens in the Classical Period Athenian autochthony is known above a ...

248 James Roy as gifts.” The remaining eight lines identify the statues that stood on the monument: they include Arkas and his s ...

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 249 and that later his descendant Oxylos returned from Aitolia to found Elis. Mythological links b ...

250 James Roy tradition took over from the version of theHomeric Hymn, is unknown. In any case, a claim to autochthony would hav ...

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 251 The inscription identifies the autochthonous ancestors as, respectively, Tlos and his son Sidy ...

252 James Roy off the community from others, but highly adaptable, and could be combined with, for instance, the incorporation o ...

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 253 Heller, Anna. 2006. “’Aρχαιóτηςetευ’γενειά. Le thème des origines dans les cités d’Asie Mineu ...

254 James Roy Rosivach, Vincent J. 1987. “Autochthony and the Athenians.”Classical Quarterly, 37: 294–306. Roy, James. 2000. “Th ...

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 255 In the classical period, Athenian autochthony is of central importance; see: Loraux, Nicole. 1 ...

CHAPTER 17 Ethnicity and the Stage Efi Papadodima Greeks and Barbarians on Stage Fifth-century Attic drama, and especially trage ...

Ethnicity and the Stage 257 Greeks and barbarians are occasionally blurred through the element of disguise and faking of identit ...

258 Efi Papadodima (cf. Herodotus 8.144.2 and Plato’sStatesman262d–263a). Here, it is worth noting that cultural identity, follo ...

Ethnicity and the Stage 259 rebukes his wife for pampering him as if he were a woman and for accepting him as if he were a barba ...

260 Efi Papadodima Phrygians’ and Lydians’ cowardice (Birds1244–5; cf. Men.Shield241–3) and the Thra- cians’ ferociousness (Acha ...

Ethnicity and the Stage 261 at witnessing a stupid and aggressive figure, familiar to them from the actual social setting as a ( ...

262 Efi Papadodima of Greek lawfulness or superior morality is massively weakened by Hermione’s overall conduct, notably her int ...