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Document Details : Title: Ethnic Identity and the Community of the Hellenes Subtitle: A Review Author(s): MITCHELL, Lynette G. Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Date: 2005 Pages: 409-420 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.4.2.3291770 Abstract : This review of Jonathan Hall’s monograph considers his limited definition of ethnicity, and suggests that Hellenic identity in Greece in the Archaic period was defined though cult as well as kinship. It also questions Hall’s assertion that Hellenic identity was formed through the political manipulations of the Thessalians, and argues that the processes that crystallised Hellenic identity involved the joint forces of aggregation and definition through difference. On this analysis, the value of Hall’s limited definition of ethnicity as a means of analysing Hellenic identity in the Archaic and Classical periods is doubted. |
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