Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world

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Label

Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world

Statement of responsibility

Christopher P. Jones

Creator

• Jones, C. P., (Christopher Prestige), 1940-

Subject

• Greece -- Foreign relations
• History
• Kinship -- Greece -- History
• Kinship -- Rome -- History
• Rome -- Foreign relations
• Civilization, Greco-Roman

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people who in a bygone age traveled the world, settled new lands, and left descendants who, generation after generation, could trace their ancestry back to the "time of heroes." From the Homeric age to Byzantium, peoples and nations sharing the same fictive ancestry appealed to their kinship when forging military alliances, settling disputes, or negotiating trade connections. In this study of the political uses of perceived kinship, Christopher Jones gives us an unparalleled view of mythic belief in action." "Examining the very origins of ancient diplomacy, and kinship as one of its basic constituents, Kinship Diplomacy addresses fundamental questions about communal and national identity and sheds new light on the force of Greek mythic traditions."--Jacket

Member of

• Revealing antiquity, 12

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306.83/09495

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

GN585.G85

LC item number

J66 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Revealing antiquity

Series volume

12