We and They: Decolonizing Greco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities

Usacheva, Anna, Sato, Makiko, W. van der Horst, Pieter, van 't Westeinde, Jessica, Pucci, Luca, Cahana-Blum, Jonathan, MacKendrick, Karmen, Giordano, Manuela

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.

EAN

9788771844436

Publisher

Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published

27 September 2019

Pages

152