Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture

by Jonathan M. Hall

Book Overview

In today's cosmopolitan world, ethnic and national identity has assumed an ever-increasing importance. But how is this identity formed, and how does it change over time?

With Hellenicity, Jonathan M. Hall explores these questions in the context of ancient Greece, drawing on an exceptionally wide range of evidence to determine when, how, why, and to what extent the Greeks conceived themselves as a single people. Hall argues that a subjective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226313301
• ISBN13: 9780226313306
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.7"