A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

(Steven Felgate) #1
Herodotus and Ethnicity 355

Hall, Jonathan M. 1995. “The Role of Language in Greek Ethnicities.”Proceedings of the Cam-
bridgePhilologicalSociety, 41: 83–110; Hall, Jonathan. 1997.EthnicIdentityinGreekAntiquity.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and idem. 2002.Hellenicity:BetweenEthnicityandCul-
ture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Two seminal works, the first of which has arguably
initiated the current debate about ancient notions of ethnicity.
Harrison, Thomas, ed. 2002.Greeks and Barbarians. New York: Edinburgh University Press.
Hornblower, Simon, ed. 1994.Greek Historiography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hartog, François. 1988.The Mirror of Herodotus: the Representation of the Other in the Writing
of History. Trans. J. Lloyd. Berkeley: University of California Press. Focuses on Herodotus’
representation of customs, an important aspect of “ethnicity” in the modern sense of the term.
Isaac, Benjamin. 2004.The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton Uni-
versity Press. Documents the attribution by ancient authors of fixed mental or physical charac-
teristics to collectivities.
Loraux, Nicole. 1993.TheChildrenofAthena. Trans. by C. Levine. Princeton: Princeton Univer-
sity Press.
Malkin, Irad, ed. 2001.AncientPerceptionsofGreekEthnicity. Cambridge, MA: Center for Hellenic
Studies. A groundbreaking collection. Particularly useful for understanding Herodotus’ fluid
notion of ethnicity are the contributions by Jeremy McInerney (“Ethnos and Ethnicity in Early
Greece”) and by Rosalind Thomas (“Ethnicity, Genealogy, and Hellenism in Herodotus,” now
re-printed with an update in the newOxford Readings in Classical Studies: Herodotus).
Munson, Rosario Vignolo. 2012.Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Herodotus. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Rosen, Ralph and Ineke Sluiter, ed. 2010.Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity. Leiden: Brill.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. 2003. “Herodotos (and others) on Pelasgians: Some Perceptions
of Ethnicity.” In Peter Derow and Robert Parker, eds.,Herodotus and His World. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.

Free download pdf