Cultural Borrowings And Ethnic Appropriations In Antiquity Erich S Gruen by Erich S. Gruen 9783515087353, 3515087354 instant download after payment.

Notes: "The volume grew out of a conference held at Schloss Elmau in the Bavarian Alps in the summer of 2003"--Page [7].

Contents:Semiramis in history and legend: a case study in interpretation of an Assyrian historical tradition, with observations on archetypes in ancient historiography, on Euhemerism before Euhemerus, and on the so-called Greek ethnographic style / Stephanie Dalley --
Genesis 1-11 and its Mesopotamian problem / Ronald Hendel --
Periergia: Egyptian reactions to Greek curiosity / Jan Assmann --
Heroen als Grenzgänger zwischen Griechen und Barbaren / Hans-Joachim Gehrke --
Barbarian lineage in classical Greek mythology and art: Pelops, Danaos and Kadmos / M.C. Miller --
Persia through the Jewish looking-glass / Erich S. Gruen --
Rom as enemy of Iran / Josef Wiesehöfer --
Unity and identity: shaping the past in the Greek Mediterranean / Andrew Erskine --
"Do you look like you belong here?": Asianism at Pergamon and the Makedonian diaspora / Ann Kuttner --
Ethnic portraits in Greco-Roman literature / Gideon Bohak --
Herakles and Melqart: Greeks and Phoenicians in the middle ground / Irad Malkin --
Arcades his Oris: Greek projections on the Italian ethnoscape? / Jonathan M. Hall --
Palmyra and Hatra: "civic" and "tribal" institutions at the Near Eastern steppe frontier / Michael Sommer --
The Theodosian Empire (408-450) and the Arabs: Saracens or Ishmaelites? / Fergus Millar.