Brill Academic Pub, 2011 - 210 p. ISBN10: 9004207104 ISBN13:
9789004207103
The present study, with its emphasis on identities grounded in cult, focuses rather on what Hall terms secondary indicia of ethnicity, that class of attributes which may very well attend upon an ethnic group, but need not, and which may be present among other groups that were not properly ethnic.While such indiciamay indeed appearmarginal and secondary from the perspective of the formal study of ethnicity, they are compelling objects of research in their own right. It is now generally accepted that therewere in efect diferent types of identity in antiquity to which individuals could simultaneously subscribe with no inherent contradiction.his recognition of so-called ‘tiered’ identity has been a productive development in recent scholarship and has opened up new and potentially fruitful areas of inquiry. In the case of later Hellenistichessaly, membership in thehessalian League did not translate into membership in thehessalian ethnos, formany individually distinct ethne participated in thehessalian koinon. It is the relationship of these two tiers of identity in the language and practice of cult that forms the central focusof thiswork. Such questions have tended to be asked of the Early Iron and Archaic periods, but they are just as appropriate in later periods, for these dynamics continued to inluence group formation despite the emergence
of large territorial empires like those of the Diadochoi and their epigones or Rome.
The present study, with its emphasis on identities grounded in cult, focuses rather on what Hall terms secondary indicia of ethnicity, that class of attributes which may very well attend upon an ethnic group, but need not, and which may be present among other groups that were not properly ethnic.While such indiciamay indeed appearmarginal and secondary from the perspective of the formal study of ethnicity, they are compelling objects of research in their own right. It is now generally accepted that therewere in efect diferent types of identity in antiquity to which individuals could simultaneously subscribe with no inherent contradiction.his recognition of so-called ‘tiered’ identity has been a productive development in recent scholarship and has opened up new and potentially fruitful areas of inquiry. In the case of later Hellenistichessaly, membership in thehessalian League did not translate into membership in thehessalian ethnos, formany individually distinct ethne participated in thehessalian koinon. It is the relationship of these two tiers of identity in the language and practice of cult that forms the central focusof thiswork. Such questions have tended to be asked of the Early Iron and Archaic periods, but they are just as appropriate in later periods, for these dynamics continued to inluence group formation despite the emergence
of large territorial empires like those of the Diadochoi and their epigones or Rome.