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FURTHER READING

Autochthony was one element by which a Greek community could create its identity. Such iden-
tities were usually expressed through mythical genealogy. On this, see:

Hall, Jonathan M. 1997.Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Patterson, Lee E. 2010.Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press.

There are good reviews of autochthony in the classical period by:

Blok, Josine H. 2009a. “Gentrifying Genealogy: On the Genesis of the Athenian Autochthony
Myth.” In Ueli Dill and Christine Walde, eds.,Antike Mythen: Medien, Transformationen und
Konstruktionen, 251–75. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter.
Pelling, Christopher. 2009. “Bringing Autochthony Up-to-Date: Herodotus and Thucydides.”
Classical World, 102.4: 471–83.