Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity
Erich S. Gruen
Franz Steiner Verlag
<span>Notes: "The volume grew out of a conference held at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps in the summer of 2003"--Page [7].</span><p><span><br></span></p>Contents:Semiramis in history and legend: a case study in interpretation of an Assyrian historical tradition, with observations on archetypes in ancient historiography, on Euhemerism before Euhemerus, and on the so-called Greek ethnographic style / Stephanie Dalley --<br>Genesis 1-11 and its Mesopotamian problem / Ronald Hendel --<br>Periergia: Egyptian reactions to Greek curiosity / Jan Assmann --<br>Heroen als Grenzgänger zwischen Griechen und Barbaren / Hans-Joachim Gehrke --<br>Barbarian lineage in classical Greek mythology and art: Pelops, Danaos and Kadmos / M.C. Miller --<br>Persia through the Jewish looking-glass / Erich S. Gruen --<br>Rom as enemy of Iran / Josef Wiesehöfer --<br>Unity and identity: shaping the past in the Greek Mediterranean / Andrew Erskine --<br>"Do you look like you belong here?": Asianism at Pergamon and the Makedonian diaspora / Ann Kuttner --<br>Ethnic portraits in Greco-Roman literature / Gideon Bohak --<br>Herakles and Melqart: Greeks and Phoenicians in the middle ground / Irad Malkin --<br>Arcades his Oris: Greek projections on the Italian ethnoscape? / Jonathan M. Hall --<br>Palmyra and Hatra: "civic" and "tribal" institutions at the Near Eastern steppe frontier / Michael Sommer --<br>The Theodosian Empire (408-450) and the Arabs: Saracens or Ishmaelites? / Fergus Millar.<br><br><br>