Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world
by C. P. Jones
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"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world
1999, Harvard University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.
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