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By Naoíse Mac Sweeney

This e-book examines starting place myths informed in regards to the Ionian towns throughout the archaic and classical classes. It makes use of those myths to discover the complicated and altering ways that civic id used to be developed in Ionia, concerning this to the broader discourses approximately ethnicity and cultural distinction that have been present within the Greek international at the moment. The Ionian towns appear to have rejected oppositional types of cultural distinction which set against this East and West, Europe and Asia, Greek and Barbarian, opting in its place for a extra fluid and nuanced point of view on ethnic and cultural differences. The conclusions of this ebook have far-reaching implications for our knowing of Ionia, but additionally problem present types of Greek ethnicity and identification, suggesting that there has been a extra various notion of Greekness in antiquity than has usually been assumed.

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