Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World

by Christopher P. Jones

Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people who in a bygone age traveled the world, settled new lands, and left descendants who, generation after generation, could trace their ancestry back to the "time of heroes." From the Homeric age to Byzantium, peoples and nations sharing the same fictive ancestry appealed to their kinship when forging military alliances, settling disputes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674505271
• ISBN13: 9780674505278
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 9.0"