A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Autochthony in Ancient Greece 255

In the classical period, Athenian autochthony is of central importance; see:

Loraux, Nicole. 1990.Les enfants d’Athéna. Idées athéniennes sur la citoyenneté et la division des
sexes. Paris: F. Maspero. (2nd edition with valuable addedpostface.) Available in English as:
Loraux, Nicole. 1993.The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division
Between the Sexes. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Loraux, Nicole. 1993.L’invention d’Athènes. Histoire de l’oraison funèbre dans la“cite classique”,
2nd ed. Paris: Payot. Available in English as: Loraux, Nicole. 2006.The Invention of Athens, 2nd
ed. New York: Zone Books.
Loraux, Nicole. 1996.Né de la terre. Mythe et politique à Athènes. Paris: Seuil. Available in English
as: Loraux, Nicole. 2000.Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens. Ithaca: Cornell Univer-
sity Press.
On the expression of autochthony in drama, an important medium, see:

Zacharia, Katerina. 2003. Converging Truths: Euripides’ Ion and the Athenian Quest for
Self-definition. Leiden: Brill.

There is no good general study of autochthony in the post-classical period. Relevant ancient literary

sources can be consulted through the index (“autochthony”) of:

Isaac, Benjamin. 2004.The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton Uni-
versity Press.