Phoenicians among Others

Why Migrants Mattered in the Ancient Mediterranean
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-763485-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Phoenicians among Others provides the first history of Phoenician immigrants in the ancient Mediterranean from the fourth to the first centuries BCE. Through an examination of inscriptions, many bilingual in Phoenician and Greek or Egyptian, Phoenicians among Others demonstrates how mobility and migration challenged migrants and states alike. Far from being excluded, and despite facing prejudices, immigrants mobilized adaptive strategies to mediate their experiences and encourage a sense of membership and belonging, constructed new identities, and transformed the societies they joined.

By integrating the voices and histories of immigrants with those of the states in which they lived, Denise Demetriou highlights the diverse ways that migrants influenced the development of societies, introduced new institutions, shaped the policies of their home and host states, made notions of citizenship more fluid, and changed the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demetriou, Denise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Denise Demetriou is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, where she holds the Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Chair in Ancient Greek History. Her previous publications include Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia.