Aiolian ethnicity: myth, culture, and performance

Thesis

This thesis is the first extended study of one of the major ethnic groups in Greek antiquity, the Aiolians. In the Archaic and Classical periods, Aiolian identity is associated with the regions of Boiotia, Lesbos, Aiolis and the other north-western parts of Asia Minor and the nearby islands. Thessaly is sometimes also considered Aiolian. The equivalence of the Aiolians with other intra-Hellenic ethnic groups in ancient sources has prompted a wide-spread assumption that the Aiolians constru...

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Authors: Wilson, ARJ

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-rvz7gdged
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Aiolian mode (harmonia); Aeolian Greek ethnicity; Aeolic dialect group; ethnic performance; Aioleis/Aeoles; Aiolidai/Aeolidae
• Subjects: Greece--History--To 146 B.C; Music, Greek and Roman; Kinship--Greece--History; Greek language--Dialectology; Aeolians; History, Ancient