Kinship Diplomacy In The Ancient World
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Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World
Author | : Christopher Prestige Jones |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674505271 |
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In this study of the political uses of perceived kinship from the Homeric age to Byzantium, Jones provides an unparalleled view of mythic belief in action and addresses fundamental questions about communal and national identity.
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
Author | : Lee E. Patterson |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292739598 |
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In ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent. In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in the construction of political and cultural identity. He draws examples both from the literary and epigraphical records and shows the fundamental difference between the two. He also expands his study into the question of Greek credulity—how much of these founding myths did they actually believe, and how much was just a useful fiction for diplomatic relations? Of central importance is the authority the Greeks gave to myth, whether to elaborate narratives or to a simple acknowledgment of an ancestor. Most Greeks could readily accept ties of interstate kinship even when local origin narratives could not be reconciled smoothly or when myths used to explain the link between communities were only "discovered" upon the actual occasion of diplomacy, because such claims had been given authority in the collective memory of the Greeks.
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
Author | : Lee E. Patterson |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292722750 |
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This study enriches the dialogue on how societies often use myth to construct political, social, and cultural identity---hardly unique to the ancient Greeks, it is rather a human phenomenon for a culture to embrace an identity grounded in a putative ancestry that is expressed in the traditional stories of that culture. --Book Jacket.
Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World
Author | : Claude Eilers |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789047424291 |
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This volume of papers offers ten perspectives on the way in which ambassadors, embassies, and the institutional apparatuses supporting them contributed to Roman rule. Understanding Roman diplomatic practices can shed light on a wide variety of historical and cultural trends.
Essence of Diplomacy
Author | : Christer Jönsson,Martin Hall |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2005-08-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230511040 |
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Essence of Diplomacy explores the essential, timeless features of diplomacy, drawing on the historical record of over three millennia. In their effort at making international relations (IR) theory relevant to diplomacy, and diplomacy relevant to IR theory, the authors identify three essential dimensions of diplomacy: communication, representation and the reproduction of international society.
Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity
Author | : Eduard Iricinschi,Holger M. Zellentin |
Publsiher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 316149122X |
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"The papers collected in this volume shift the focus away from "heretics" and "heresy" to heresiological discourse, by contextualizing the late antique Jewish and Christian groups that produced our extant literature. The contributors to the volume draw from multiple literary corpora and genres, bringing a variety of late antique perspective to explore the discursive construction of the Other. They unravel ethnic identities, and re-create the multiple voices textured in the dialogue between the "orthodox" and "heretical" writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice
Author | : Jennifer Wright Knust,Zsuzsanna Varhelyi |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2011-08-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199876402 |
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An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.
One in Christ Jesus
Author | : David Lertis Matson,K.C. Richardson |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781498227216 |
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This Festschrift dedicated to S. Scott Bartchy comes on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. This volume contains seventeen essays contributed by Professor Bartchy's esteemed colleagues, associates, friends, and former graduate students. Beginning with his groundbreaking work on Greco-Roman slavery, Bartchy's teaching and research have been marked both by his use of social-scientific methods for studying the New Testament and by an interest in the social history of early Christianity, including the role of women in the early Christian assemblies, the Christian critique of traditional views of male honor, and the practice of table fellowship and its implications for Christian social relations. To honor Bartchy's legacy, the editors thought it appropriate to organize this collection according to the relational categories suggested by Galatians 3:28. Each essay pertains, therefore, to the social dynamics between Jews and Gentiles, slaves and freeborn, or males and females in the early church and beyond. The volume's subtitle reflects Scott's many accomplishments as a jazz musician and sounds a note of unity in diversity that characterizes the diverse perspectives and themes found in the essays of this volume.