Ethnography and the Colonial World in Theocritus and Lucian

dc.contributor.advisorBowditch, Phebe Lowellen_US
dc.contributor.authorParmenter, Christopheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-03T23:36:18Z
dc.date.available2013-10-03T23:36:18Z
dc.date.issued2013-10-03
dc.description.abstractScholars of migration, colonization, and cultural interaction in antiquity have increasingly turned towards a variety of concepts (such as hybridity, negotiations, and middle grounds) developed by postcolonial theorists to describe the dynamics of ancient civilizations beyond the major centers of Athens and Rome. Whereas older models of identity saw the ancient world as a series of geographically distinct cultural units with attendant language, religion, and practices--that is to say, a model of identity rooted in the modern concept of the nation state-- recently classicists have come to see ancient identities as abstractions of a series of individual choices that take place over long periods of time and that are always mediated by contact with different groups. Focusing on two authors from what I shall define as the `colonial worlds' of antiquity (Theocritus from Sicily and Lucian from Syria) this study will explore how representations of physical difference and cultural practice negotiate the presence of non-Greek peoples into Greek literary culture.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/13314
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectEthnographyen_US
dc.subjectHistoriographyen_US
dc.subjectLucianen_US
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectSecond Sophisticen_US
dc.subjectTheocritusen_US
dc.titleEthnography and the Colonial World in Theocritus and Lucianen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Classicsen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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