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dc.contributor.authorAston, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T14:10:02Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T14:10:02Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87171
dc.description.abstractThessaly was a region of great importance in the ancient Greek world, possessing both agricultural abundance and a strategic position between north and south. It presents historians with the challenge of seeing beyond traditional stereotypes (wealth and witches, horses and hospitality) that have coloured perceptions of its people from antiquity to the present day. It also presents a complex and illuminating interaction between polis and ethnos identity. In daily life, most Thessalians primarily operated within, and identified with, their specific polis; at the same time, the regional dimension – being Thessalian – was rarely out of sight for long. It manifested itself in stories told, in deities worshipped, in modes of political co-operation, in language, rituals, sites and objects. Chapter by chapter, this book follows the emergence, development and adaptation of Thessalian regional identity from the Archaic period to the early second century BC. In so doing, rather than rejecting ancient stereotypes as a mere inconvenience for the historian, it considers the constant dialogue between Thessalian self-presentation and depictions of the Thessalian character by other Greeks. It also confronts some of the prejudices and assumptions still influencing modern approaches to studying the region. All in all, the reader is invited to see Thessaly not as a region of marginal significance in Greek history, but as occupying a central role in many aspects of ancient cultural and political discourse.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / regionen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QB Historical states, empires, territories and regions::1QBA Ancient Worlden_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QB Historical states, empires, territories and regions::1QBA Ancient World::1QBAG Ancient Greeceen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3C BCE period – Protohistoryen_US
dc.subject.otherThessaly; ancient Greece; poleis; democracy; ethnicityen_US
dc.titleBlessed Thessalyen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Identities of a Place and Its People from the Archaic Period to the Hellenisticen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dcen_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByfb471c48-61d1-40b5-a8d7-7abd9278f351en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781835530016en_US
oapen.pages520en_US
oapen.place.publicationLiverpoolen_US


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