Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1048879 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Naoíse Mac Sweeney |
| PRENOMES | Naoíse |
| SOBRENOME | Mac Sweeney |
| ASSINATURA | MAC SWEENEY N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7994-6576 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Race in Ancient Greek Visual and Material Culture
Race-making is an inherently embodied activity, rooted in the senses and predicated on corporeality. As a result, visuality and materiality are central to processes of race-making, and studies of ancient visual and material culture therefore have much to contribute to modern scholarship on ancient race-making. This chapter explores what can be learned from visual and material culture about processes of race-making in the ancient Greek world, cons…
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures …
Ancient Greek Origin Myths
Origin myths from the ancient Greek world constitute a rich body of comparative material for the study of medieval origin myths. Not only did individual ancient Greek origin myths sometimes enjoy medieval afterlives, but the corpus of ancient Greek origin myths is a large and diverse one, facilitating many lines of analysis and comparison. In this paper, we will set out a brief overview of this corpus as a whole, highlighting the diversity of sou…
Field Data from the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (Wasap), 2021–2024
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project was an interdisciplinary fieldwork project, combining reconnaissance survey, intensive pedestrian fieldwalking, ethnographic research and drone photography in west Samos. It was co-directed by Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Cambridge/Boston MFA), Michael Loy (Cambridge/Durham), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna) and Jana Mokrišová (Cambridge, 2021 and 2022 only), under the aegis of the British School at Athen…
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) conducted fieldwork over four years (2021–4), with the aim of investigating the western portion of the island of Samos. This article presents the results of the work undertaken in the southern part of the WASAP study area. WASAP fieldwork in this area was focused on the plain of Marathokampos, and areas of the southern coastline between Koumeiika in the east and Limnionas in the west. The data…
Exploring Mediterranean Connections and Iron Age Entanglements
Despite the conventional association with sophisticated metallurgical technologies, the Iron Age has long fallen between the two academic poles of prehistoric and classical archaeology. The more recent invention of a self-consciously ambivalent terminology of ‘proto-historic’ and ‘proto-urban’ features represents an attempt by mostly European archaeologists to give the Iron Age socioeconomic substance in its own right, while at the same time also…
Herodotus on Persian and Egyptian Religion (on A. Schwab, Fremde Religion in Herodots Historien. Religiöse Mehrdimensionalität bei Persern und Ägyptern)
ngaging with the plurality of religions and cultures is a challenge of the modern world, Schwab reminds us at the start of his new monograph, as well as of the ancient one.His central argument is that in order to engage fully with this religious plurality within the text of Herodotus' Histories, a multidimensional approach is necessary.Schwab goes on to set out a framework for such an approach over the course of this book, which at its core invol…
Race and Ethnicity
Regional Identities in the Greek World
This article sheds new light on the dynamic nature of Greek regional identities. It does this with reference to the Ionians of Asia Minor, investigating both the presentation of Ionian collectivity through foundation myths, and the practice of Ionian communality through the Ionian League. It then considers the relationship between the two from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE. The Ionian example demonstrates that Greek regional grou…
Ethnicity and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Herodotus and the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
The advent of the First World War in August 1914 is often taken as the end-point for the long nineteenth century. In this chapter, I will argue that, for Herodotean receptions at least, the long nineteenth century should be extended until September 1922 and the conclusion of the Greco-Turkish War. While the First World War marked a crucial turning point for historiography in general (and, indeed, for society as a whole), the Greco-Turkish War had…
Troy
What makes a story timeless? What ensures that a tale is told and retold over centuries, or even millennia? What can an ancient story mean for us, in a world of globalised post-modernity
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Edges and Interactions beyond Europe
Iron Age Europe, once studied as a relatively closed, coherent continent, is being seen increasingly as a dynamic part of the much larger, interconnected world. Interactions, direct and indirect, with communities in Asia, Africa, and, by the end of the first millennium AD, North America, had significant effects on the peoples of Iron Age Europe. In the Near East and Egypt, and much later in the North Atlantic, the interactions can be linked direc…
Failed nostoi and Foundations
This chapter takes a single well-documented example of a faulty nostos . It concentrates on the famous Homeric seer Kalchas who ended up buried at Ionian Kolophon and explains its Hellenistic manifestation in terms of Roman encroachment on the Greek East
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 bc to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introduc…
Separating Fact from Fiction in the Ionian Migration
The Ionian cities of Asia Minor have been the subject of much discussion, particularly in regard to their foundation. Traditional accounts of this foundation posit a large-scale migration from the Greek mainland led by Athenian colonists. This article reviews the historical, archaeological, and linguistic evidence for the origins of the Ionian cities, and offers a new analysis of the substantial body of later literary material written in Greek an…
Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies
List of Abbreviations Introduction -Naoise Mac Sweeney Chapter 1. Foreign Founders: Greeks and Hebrews -Irad Malkin Chapter 2. Oikist and Archegetes in Context: Representing the Foundation of Sicilian Naxos -Lieve Donnellan Chapter 3. Who's the Daddy?: Contesting and Constructing Theseus' Paternity in Fifth-Century Athens -Susanne Turner Chapter 4. The Founder's Shrine and the Foundation of Ai Khanoum -Rachel Mairs Chapter 5. Alexander, Agathos D…
Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia
This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and changing ways in which civic identity was constructed in Ionia, relating this to the wider discourses about ethnicity and cultural difference that were current in the Greek world at this time. The Ionian cities seem to have rejected oppositional models of cultural difference which set in contras…
Hittites and Arzawans
There has been much recent research in archaeology on the dynamics of imperial systems, and valuable work has been done on the complex relationships between the Hittite state and groups on its imperial periphery. The nature of the available source material means that these relationships are usually studied from a Hittite perspective, and that interactions with the Hittites are often seen as centrally important for these groups. In this paper, how…
The New Turkish Republic. Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 bc to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introduc…
Separating Fact from Fiction in the Ionian Migration
The Ionian cities of Asia Minor have been the subject of much discussion, particularly in regard to their foundation. Traditional accounts of this foundation posit a large-scale migration from the Greek mainland led by Athenian colonists. This article reviews the historical, archaeological, and linguistic evidence for the origins of the Ionian cities, and offers a new analysis of the substantial body of later literary material written in Greek an…
The New Turkish Republic. Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World
Exploring Mediterranean Connections and Iron Age Entanglements
Despite the conventional association with sophisticated metallurgical technologies, the Iron Age has long fallen between the two academic poles of prehistoric and classical archaeology. The more recent invention of a self-consciously ambivalent terminology of ‘proto-historic’ and ‘proto-urban’ features represents an attempt by mostly European archaeologists to give the Iron Age socioeconomic substance in its own right, while at the same time also…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Hittites and Arzawans
There has been much recent research in archaeology on the dynamics of imperial systems, and valuable work has been done on the complex relationships between the Hittite state and groups on its imperial periphery. The nature of the available source material means that these relationships are usually studied from a Hittite perspective, and that interactions with the Hittites are often seen as centrally important for these groups. In this paper, how…
Regional Identities in the Greek World
This article sheds new light on the dynamic nature of Greek regional identities. It does this with reference to the Ionians of Asia Minor, investigating both the presentation of Ionian collectivity through foundation myths, and the practice of Ionian communality through the Ionian League. It then considers the relationship between the two from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE. The Ionian example demonstrates that Greek regional grou…
The New Turkish Republic. Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World
Hittites and Arzawans
There has been much recent research in archaeology on the dynamics of imperial systems, and valuable work has been done on the complex relationships between the Hittite state and groups on its imperial periphery. The nature of the available source material means that these relationships are usually studied from a Hittite perspective, and that interactions with the Hittites are often seen as centrally important for these groups. In this paper, how…
Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia
This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and changing ways in which civic identity was constructed in Ionia, relating this to the wider discourses about ethnicity and cultural difference that were current in the Greek world at this time. The Ionian cities seem to have rejected oppositional models of cultural difference which set in contras…
Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies
List of Abbreviations Introduction -Naoise Mac Sweeney Chapter 1. Foreign Founders: Greeks and Hebrews -Irad Malkin Chapter 2. Oikist and Archegetes in Context: Representing the Foundation of Sicilian Naxos -Lieve Donnellan Chapter 3. Who's the Daddy?: Contesting and Constructing Theseus' Paternity in Fifth-Century Athens -Susanne Turner Chapter 4. The Founder's Shrine and the Foundation of Ai Khanoum -Rachel Mairs Chapter 5. Alexander, Agathos D…
Separating Fact from Fiction in the Ionian Migration
The Ionian cities of Asia Minor have been the subject of much discussion, particularly in regard to their foundation. Traditional accounts of this foundation posit a large-scale migration from the Greek mainland led by Athenian colonists. This article reviews the historical, archaeological, and linguistic evidence for the origins of the Ionian cities, and offers a new analysis of the substantial body of later literary material written in Greek an…
Edges and Interactions beyond Europe
Iron Age Europe, once studied as a relatively closed, coherent continent, is being seen increasingly as a dynamic part of the much larger, interconnected world. Interactions, direct and indirect, with communities in Asia, Africa, and, by the end of the first millennium AD, North America, had significant effects on the peoples of Iron Age Europe. In the Near East and Egypt, and much later in the North Atlantic, the interactions can be linked direc…
Failed nostoi and Foundations
This chapter takes a single well-documented example of a faulty nostos . It concentrates on the famous Homeric seer Kalchas who ended up buried at Ionian Kolophon and explains its Hellenistic manifestation in terms of Roman encroachment on the Greek East
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 bc to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introduc…
Antipodean Antiquities
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Ethnicity and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Herodotus and the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
The advent of the First World War in August 1914 is often taken as the end-point for the long nineteenth century. In this chapter, I will argue that, for Herodotean receptions at least, the long nineteenth century should be extended until September 1922 and the conclusion of the Greco-Turkish War. While the First World War marked a crucial turning point for historiography in general (and, indeed, for society as a whole), the Greco-Turkish War had…
Troy
What makes a story timeless? What ensures that a tale is told and retold over centuries, or even millennia? What can an ancient story mean for us, in a world of globalised post-modernity
Regional Identities in the Greek World
This article sheds new light on the dynamic nature of Greek regional identities. It does this with reference to the Ionians of Asia Minor, investigating both the presentation of Ionian collectivity through foundation myths, and the practice of Ionian communality through the Ionian League. It then considers the relationship between the two from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE. The Ionian example demonstrates that Greek regional grou…
Race and Ethnicity
Herodotus on Persian and Egyptian Religion (on A. Schwab, Fremde Religion in Herodots Historien. Religiöse Mehrdimensionalität bei Persern und Ägyptern)
ngaging with the plurality of religions and cultures is a challenge of the modern world, Schwab reminds us at the start of his new monograph, as well as of the ancient one.His central argument is that in order to engage fully with this religious plurality within the text of Herodotus' Histories, a multidimensional approach is necessary.Schwab goes on to set out a framework for such an approach over the course of this book, which at its core invol…
Exploring Mediterranean Connections and Iron Age Entanglements
Despite the conventional association with sophisticated metallurgical technologies, the Iron Age has long fallen between the two academic poles of prehistoric and classical archaeology. The more recent invention of a self-consciously ambivalent terminology of ‘proto-historic’ and ‘proto-urban’ features represents an attempt by mostly European archaeologists to give the Iron Age socioeconomic substance in its own right, while at the same time also…
Field Data from the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (Wasap), 2021–2024
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project was an interdisciplinary fieldwork project, combining reconnaissance survey, intensive pedestrian fieldwalking, ethnographic research and drone photography in west Samos. It was co-directed by Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Cambridge/Boston MFA), Michael Loy (Cambridge/Durham), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna) and Jana Mokrišová (Cambridge, 2021 and 2022 only), under the aegis of the British School at Athen…
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project
The West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP) conducted fieldwork over four years (2021–4), with the aim of investigating the western portion of the island of Samos. This article presents the results of the work undertaken in the southern part of the WASAP study area. WASAP fieldwork in this area was focused on the plain of Marathokampos, and areas of the southern coastline between Koumeiika in the east and Limnionas in the west. The data…
Race in Ancient Greek Visual and Material Culture
Race-making is an inherently embodied activity, rooted in the senses and predicated on corporeality. As a result, visuality and materiality are central to processes of race-making, and studies of ancient visual and material culture therefore have much to contribute to modern scholarship on ancient race-making. This chapter explores what can be learned from visual and material culture about processes of race-making in the ancient Greek world, cons…
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures …
Ancient Greek Origin Myths
Origin myths from the ancient Greek world constitute a rich body of comparative material for the study of medieval origin myths. Not only did individual ancient Greek origin myths sometimes enjoy medieval afterlives, but the corpus of ancient Greek origin myths is a large and diverse one, facilitating many lines of analysis and comparison. In this paper, we will set out a brief overview of this corpus as a whole, highlighting the diversity of sou…
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