We and they : decolonizing Greco-Roman and biblical antiquities /
The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the pas...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aarhus :
Aarhus University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ;
14. |
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| Summary: | The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange of ideas, and that such is the dialogue we should strive forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors. |
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| Item Description: | Papers presented at a conference at Aarhus University Conference Center, Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark, August 2016. |
| Physical Description: | 151 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-144) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9788771844436 8771844430 |