Ionians, Dorians, Greeks and Illyrians Nuancing Hellenistic Identity with the Language of Dalmatian Inscriptions.
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ponedjeljak, 17. 2. 2025. u 12 sati Besplatan ulaz Predavač Mark Matić doktorand je na Sveučilištu Macquarie u Sydneyu i povremeni predavač starogrčkog i latinskog jezika. Helenska povijest Dalmacije i varijante grčkog jezika koje su u njoj sačuvane neki su od njegovih znanstvenih interesa s obzirom na njegovo dalmatinsko podrijetlo. Sažetak predavanja Like the modern Dalmatians, the ancient Greeks saw the sea not as an empty expanse but a network of roads. Plato famously compared his people to frogs living around a pond, and Cicero wrote that "the shores of Greece are like hems stitched onto the lands of barbarian peoples." The historian Irad Malkin claims that the sea played a crucial role in the formation of a collective Greek identity. That is, it afforded Hellenes the distance and contrastive cultural environments necessary to recognise and appreciate their common attributes, most notably during the intensive colonisation of the Archaic Period (c. 8th – early 5th century BCE). The Greek colonisation of Dalmatia largely belongs to a later time (the Classical and Hellenistic Periods). The early history of the region’s first towns is obscured by a dearth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence. Among the most valuable though under-utilised data is a modest catalogue of stelae related to the communities of Pharos (Stari Grad), Issa (Vis), Tragurion (Trogir), Salona (Solin), and Issaean Corcyra (Korčula). The historical value of these artefacts becomes especially apparent when we read them as records of shared symbols, emotions and identities. This lecture considers the significance of dialects and standard languages, panhellenic cults, conquests and casualties, and the construction of cultural others (e.g. Illyrians) in the formation of colonial Dalmatian identities. The author sees these ancient ‘glocal’ phenomena as potent analogies for the formation of modern Croatian identities, which similarly owe much to distance, contrast and conflict. Foto: Lumbardska psefizma |
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