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Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean

Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean

Hardcover

Series: Rewriting Antiquity

Ancient History GeneralGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0367687119
ISBN13: 9780367687113
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2023
Pages: 726
Weight: 3.05
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective.

The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions - from the Ancient Near East, through the Greek and Hellenistic worlds and pre-Roman North Africa, to the Roman Empire and its continuations, and with excursuses to modernity. The contributors to this book adopt various contemporary theories, demonstrating the manifold meanings and ways of defining the concept and practices of citizenship and belonging in ancient societies and, in turn, of non-citizenship and non-belonging. Whether citizenship was defined by territorial belonging or blood descent, by privileged or exclusive access to resources or participation in communal decision-making, or by a sense of group belonging, such identifications were also open to discursive redefinitions and manipulation. Citizenship and belonging, as well as non-citizenship and non-belonging, had many shades and degrees; citizenship could be bought or faked, or even removed. By casting light on different areas of the Mediterranean over the course of antiquity, the volume seeks to explore this multi-layered notion of citizenship and contribute to an ongoing and relevant discourse.

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