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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15291/misc.1367

Rethinking Identity, Ethnicity, and ‘Hellenization’ in pre-Roman Liburnia

Charles Barnett ; Odjel za antičku povijest, Sveučilište Macquarie


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Abstract

It is widely accepted that the Liburni, at some point in the Iron Age, ruled over much of the Adriatic. Professor Slobodan Čače was the first scholar to truly challenge these narratives through a critique of the written sources. The aim of this paper is to build upon the work of Čače in seeking to rethink identities in pre-Roman Liburnia through analysis of ancient literary sources. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach, and seeks to address ideas about identity and cultural change through material culture. A reexamination is undertaken into Liburnian identity through archaeological evidence, and the transformations it apparently went through during the Iron Age, focusing on ideas about ethno-cultural identities and ‘Hellenization’ in interpretations of developments in Liburnia during the last 4 centuries BCE.

Keywords

Liburnia; Iron Age; identity; ethnicity; Hellenization; material culture

Hrčak ID:

190814

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/190814

Publication date:

18.12.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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