Derks T., Roymans N. (ed.) Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity. The Role of Power and Tradition

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. – 353 p. – (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies. Vol. 13).
ISBN: 978-90-8964-078-9
NUR 682Ton Derks / Nico Roymans. Introduction
Catherine Morgan. Ethnic expression on the Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Greek mainland. Where should we be looking?
Jan Paul Crielaard. The Ionians in the Archaic period. Shifting identities in a changing world
Hans-Joachim Gehrke. From Athenian identity to European ethnicity. The cultural biography of the myth of Marathon
Bert van der Spek. Multi-ethnicity and ethnic segregation in Hellenistic Babylon
Karl Strobel. The Galatians in the Roman Empire. Historical tradition and ethnic identity in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
Douwe Yntema. Material culture and plural identity in early Roman Southern Italy
Nicole Belayche. Foundation myths in Roman Palestine. Traditions and reworkings
Dick Whittaker. Ethnic discourses on the frontiers of Roman Africa
Greg Woolf. Cruptorix and his kind. Talking ethnicity on the middle ground
Nico Roymans. Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman Empire
Ton Derks. Ethnic identity in the Roman frontier. The epigraphy of Batavi and other Lower Rhine tribes
Frans Theuws. Grave goods, ethnicity, and the rhetoric of burial rites in Late Antique Northern Gaul
Jos Bazelmans. The early-medieval use of ethnic names from classical antiquity. The case of the FrisiansIndex of names and places
List of contributors