<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>I am delighted to announce the publication of my book<br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Greekness
and Otherness beyond the stereotype. Athens, Sparta, Thebes</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>






















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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abstract:<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This book deals with the notion of Greekness and
otherness in classical times offering an innovative research perspective. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">It</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> questions the reliability of the
Greek-barbarian polarity, which, as is commonly believed, resulted from
fifth-century BC political thought (consider historiography and tragedy). This </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">duality</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is to be dismissed as a tool of
enquiry, since it does not give due measure to a </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">‘fragmented’</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> society, such as the Greek.
There are commonplaces about the notion of identity in ancient times, and the
scholarly idea of the existence of a sharp contrast between Greeks and
barbarians is often a matter of modern projections onto the past of current
concerns and feelings. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The book </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">suggests</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> a literary and relativist
approach to the issue. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">It</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> wants to problematise and raise
questions, moving beyond rigid interpretative schemas. Therefore, it will
discuss the stereotypes that developed about people in ancient times</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">which </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">are found in classical authors
(poets, historians, orators). The overturning of those stereotypes occurring
within the Greek literary tradition is considered, with a special focus on
authorial intention and reader response. Case studies are offered on the
Athenians, Spartans, and Thebans, and their self-representation. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best wishes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">


















</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Dr PhD Egidia
Occhipinti<br>Research Fellow<br>
Dipartimento Culture e Società<br>
Università degli Studi di Palermo<br>
Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 15<br>
90128 Palermo</font></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>





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