Contents - 8[-]Introduction - 10[-]Ethnic expression on the Early Iron Age and early Archaic Greek mainland. Where should we be looking? - 20[-]The Ionians in the Archaic period. Shifting identities in a changing world - 46[-]From Athenian identity to European ethnicity - the cultural biography of the myth of Marathon - 94[-]Multi-ethnicity and ethnic segregation in Hellenistic Babylon - 110[-]The Galatians in the Roman Empire: historical tradition and ethnic identity in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor - 126[-]Material culture and plural identity in early Roman Southern Italy - 154[-]Foundation myths in Roman Palestine. Traditions and reworkings - 176[-]Ethnic discourses on the frontiers of Roman Africa - 198[-]Cruptorix and his kind. Talking ethnicity on the middle ground - 216[-]Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman empire - 228[-]Ethnic identity in the Roman frontier. The epigraphy of Batavi and other Lower Rhine tribes - 248[-]Grave goods, ethnicity, and the rhetoric of burial rites in Late Antique Northern Gaul - 292[-]The early-medieval use of ethnic names from classical antiquity. The case of the Frisians - 330[-]Index of names and places - 348[-]List of contributors - 352
Ton Derks is assistant professor of Roman archaeology at the Free University in Amsterdam. Nico Roymans is professor of West European archaeology at the Free University in Amsterdam.
The papers in this book represent some of the latest thinking about the ways in which material culture has been used to construct and express identity. The authors develop case studies ranging from early Archaic Greece to early medieval Frisia to examine theoretical propositions about archaeological and historical approaches to identity. Papers also address related issues such as language, myth, and migration. The book will be valuable to scholars and students both for its treatment of theory and for its detailed analyses of specific cultural contexts.[-][-]Peter Wells, University of Minnesota[-][-]"Ethnic identity is a contested subject in archaeological research. This volume addresses the full range of issues drawing on the rich archaeological and historical evidence from the Classical world. It is a thought-provoking book which contributes significantly to current debates."[-][-]Martin Millett , Cambridge University
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