We and They: Decolonizing Graeco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities

by Karmen MacKendrick and Jonathan Cahana

The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8771844430
• ISBN13: 9788771844436
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.5"