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Contents

preface

Ann Katherine Isaacs, Guðmundur Hálfdanarson ............................................................pag. Ix

Introduction

Aureliana Popa, Bogdan Rentea ........................................................................Ž............. » xI

Myths as sources, Myths as tools

Genealogical myth and political propaganda in Antiquity: the Re-use of Greek myths from Dionysius to Augustus

Maria Paola Castiglioni ........................................................................Ž......................... » 1

e Interaction of power and Culture in perceptions of the Latvian Epic L??plāsis

Oj?rs L?ms ........................................................................Ž.............................................. » 19

myth as an Instrument for the Study of Greek and Indigenous Identities I:

Greek myths in the Illyrian Area

Maria Paola Castiglioni ........................................................................Ž......................... » 31

e Origins of the tale of the blooddrinking Hungarians Drułe Tito, mi ti se kunemo. Ritual and political power in yugoslavia: tito's birthday Celebrations (1945-1987)

Dimitar Grigoro? ........................................................................Ž................................... » 67

Lenin and His body: a Case of Soviet Religiosity

Gio?anni Moretto ........................................................................Ž................................... » 85

Gender History - understanding human roles

tolerance and Discrimination in the field of Women's and Gender History

Gro Hagemann, José de Kruif, Berteke Waaldijk ........................................................... » 103

Gender and roles from an anthropologist's point of view

Fabio Dei ........................................................................Ž................................................. » 123

from Visibility to Analysis: Gender and History

Andrea Petń ........................................................................Ž............................................. » 133

Gender and Herodotus

Ioannis Xydopoulos ........................................................................Ž.................................. » 145

Dening the gentleman and the gentlewoman in the Italian Renaissance Lisa Saracco ........................................................................ ......................................................... » 149

National and cultural identities

Regional memory: Reections on the Role of History in (Re)constructing

Regional Identity

Miroslav Hroch ........................................................................ ................................................... » 163 Choice of Script as a mark of Cultural or/and national Identity

Pier Giorgio Borbone ........................................................................Ž.............................. » 177

"A European on the Road": in pursuit of "Connecting emes" for frontiers, borders and Cultural Identities

Lud'a Klusáko?á ........................................................................Ž..................................... » 189

multiple and Hybrid Identities: Inspirations for further Research into

Cultural Contact and Cultural Change

Markéta Kşíło?á, Harieta Mareci Sabol, Alexandre Massé .......................................... » 209

e moral territory: Sexual frontiers and Identities in urban/Rural Historiography

Laurent Gaissad ........................................................................Ž..................................... » 233

Note maria paola Castiglioni, Genealogical Myth and Political Propaganda in Antiquity: the re-use of Greek myths Şom Dionysius to Augustus, was originally published in Joaquim Carvalho (ed.), Religion and Power in Europe: ConQict and Con?ergence, pisa 2007. Ojrs Lms, ăe Interaction of Power and Culture in Perceptions of the Latvian Epic L??plāsis, was originally published in Jonathan Osmond, Ausma Cimdi?a (eds.), Power and Culture: Identity, Ideology, Representation, pisa 2006. maria paola Castiglioni, ăe Myth as an instrument for the study of the Greek and in- digenous identities I: the example of the Greek myths in the Illyrian area, was originally published in JoaquimCarvalho (ed.), Religion, Ritual and Mythology. Aspects of Identity

Formation in Europe, pisa 2006.

nally published in Csaba Lévai, Vasile Vese (eds.),Tolerance and Intolerance in Historical

Perspective, pisa 2003.

Dimitar Grigorov, "Druze tito, mi ti se kunemo". ăe Ritual and Political Power in Yu- goslavia: Tito's Birtday Celebrations (1945-1987), was originally published in Joaquim Carvalho (ed.), Religion, Ritual and Mythology. Aspects of Identity Formation in Europe, pisa 2006. Giovanni moretto, Lenin and His Body: a Case of So?iet Religiosity, in Joaquim Car- valho (ed.), Religion and Power in Europe: ConQict and Con?ergence, pisa 2006. Gro Hagemann, José de Kruif, berteke Waaldijk, Tolerance and Discrimination in the Field of Women's and Gender History, was originally published in Guðmundur Hálfda- narson (ed.), Discrimination and Tolerance in Historical Perspective, pisa 2008. fabio Dei, Gender and Roles Şom an Anthropologist's Point of View, was originally pub- lished in Ann Katherine Isaacs (ed.), Political Systems and Deőnitions of Gender Roles, pisa 2001. Andrea pet, From Visibility to Analysis: Gender and History, was originally published in Carla Salvaterra, berteke Waaldijk (eds.), Paths to Gender. European Historical Per- spectives on Women and Men, pisa 2009. Ioannis xydopoulos, Gender and Herodotus, was originally published as part of a col- lective chapter in Carla Salvaterra, berteke Waaldijk (eds.), Paths to Gender. European Historical Perspectives on Women and Men, pisa 2009. Lisa Saracco, Deőning the Gentleman and the Gentlewoman in the Italian Renaissance, was originally published in Ann Katherine Isaacs (ed.), Political Systems and Deőnitions of Gender Roles, pisa 2001. VIII miroslav Hroch, Regional Memory: ReQections on the Role of History in (Re)constructing Regional Identity, was originally published in Steven G. Ellis, Raingard Eßer (eds.), Frontiers, Regions and Identities in Europe, pisa 2009. pier Giorgio borbone, Choice of Script as a Mark of Cultural and/or National Identity, was originally published in Ann Katherine Isaacs (ed.), Languages and Identities in His- torical Perspective, pisa 2005. Lua Klusáková, "A European on the Road": in pursuit of "Connecting ăemes" for Fron- tiers, Borders and Cultural Identities, was originally published in Steven G. Ellis, Lua Klusáková, Imagining Frontiers. Contesting Identities, pisa 2008. Markéta Kşíło?á, Harieta marieci Sabol, Alexandre massé, Multiple and Hybrid Iden- tities: Inspirations for Further Research into Cultural Contact and Cultural Change, was originally published in Lua Klusáková, martin moll (eds.), Crossing Frontiers Resisting

Identities, pisa 2010.

Laurent Gaissad, ăe Moral Territory. Sexual Frontiers and Identities in Urban/Rural Historiography, was originally published in Lua Klusáková, Laure teulières (eds.), Frontiers and Identities. Cities in Regions and Nations, pisa 2008. All the abovementioned volumes and materials are available for free download from www.cliohres.net and www.clioh.net.

Preface

We are very glad to be able to continue our collaboration with the International Stu- dents of History Association by printing this Reader on Myths, Heroes, Gender and Identities, prepared by their bucharest section for the ISHA Summer Seminar, to be held on 4-10 July 2011. In the view of the organisers, people living in the rapidly globalising world are search- ing for roots that can tie them to the past - nearly as fast as they are being plunged into the future. myths and heroes seem to be power-giving images, and are attractive when we feel dis- oriented and perplexed by the rush of historical events. myths and heroes tell stories of times past, and allow us to identify with people who seem to have made a dižer- ence to humankind. A second and related theme is that of gender and identities. Are heroes only men? how are identities and role models created? how do they relate to nationalism and patriotism, not to speak of personal culture, shared ethics and social behaviour? On the one hand, the feeling of powerlessness may stimulate people to create and be- lieve in heroes, perhaps to compensate for the diculties and frustrations of trying to emerge from anonymity. Gender studies can lead women, for example, to think that their perceived powerlessness is the fault of someone else (of society and its patriarchal masculine models). Identity studies may make it seem that people only have value (and power) if they belong to a group, which can measure itself only against outsiders. In each case, we are dealing with powerful tools for communication and manipulation, which can be wielded against people's ultimate desires and interests as well as on their behalf. On the other hand, all these phenomena - myths, heroes, as well as gender and identi- ties - can also be studied for their own sake and used as critical tools for understanding how societies past and present have functioned, thus allowing greater awareness of the potentialities of each one of us, in our social and civil interactions. We might say that history, with its insistence on contextualising evidence (sources, documents) in its own spatial and temporal dimension, can act as an antidote towards irrational belief in the strength of symbols and ‘traditional' ways of imagining human life - including myths, heroes, gender roles and identities. e chapters in the three Sections have been chosen to give examples of scholarly stud- ies in these areas and to furnish dižerent scientic perspectives, each of which allows us to focus on a dižerent facet of the complex whole. e rst Section is called "myths as sources, myths as tools". is means that myths can be used as ‘documents': naturally with the necessary critical attitude. myths can yield a great deal of factual knowledge, little of which may be apparent from a supercial reading of the myth as a story. is is clear from current studies on ancient myths, such are discussed by maria paola Cas- tiglioni in her chapters on the use of ancient myths for propaganda and, particularly, on myths as a source for studying the relations between Greek and Illyrian peoples in periods for which we have no other documentation except through archaeology. e creation of and the use of myths is also a fruitful eld of study in itself: oen myths are created quite consciously and propagated as part of a political or cultural programme. is is the case of the tale of Arpad and the "blood-drinking Hungarians" examined by of the eponymous Latvian epic poem written by Andrejs pumpurs in the late 19th cen- tury. In the birth of the Latvian national project, the lack of a hero was felt, and was sup- plied by writer, in much the same way as the Kalevala was created in finland. Although such a poem did not exist in ancient times, it has become ‘historical fact', insofar as it is part of the image that Latvians have of themselves, and as Ojrs Lms shows, has been reworked and used by artists and intellectuals to comment on, praise, criticise and re- mould Latvian-ness. e studies by Dimitar Grigorov on tito's birthday celebrations, and by Giovanni moretto on the sanctifying treatment reserved for Lenin's body, allow us to investigate some of the ways that ‘heroes' are made to seem heroic and appear as unifying symbols and models for others. e second Section contains a group of chapters on gender. Some examine the chang- ing nature of gender roles: Lisa Saracco shows how a seminal text, the Cortegiano, writ- ten at the beginning of the 16th century, became a manual for Europe's aristocracies, and a guide to elegant behaviour. far from excluding women, it extolled their role as moderators and facilitators for polite sociability. fabio Dei, a cultural anthropologist, looks at gender roles as a constant in human societies, a constant insofar as the roles are dened and redened with respect to the ways society is organised for production and reproduction, but extremely variable as to the specics of the roles in each context. Gro Hagemann, José de Kruif, berteke Waaldijk and Andrea pet all look carefully at gender studies and discuss the powerful tools they give for understanding relations of unequal power, whether determined by gender or other factors. Ioannis xydopoulos reminds us, through his remarks on Herodotus, that gender models are one very signi- cant factor in the judgements made about ‘us' and the ‘other'. In the third Section we nd a selection of chapters dealing with the construction of identities: national, regional, and in the nal analysis, multiple. miroslav Hroch dis- cusses the role of historians in identity creation, and in the demystication of identi- ties. pier Giorgio borbone shows how the choice of script (e.g. Latin, Cyrillic, Ara- bic, Armenian) is an important political - and consequently identitary - choice. Lua

Klusáková, markéta Kí

ová, Harieta marieci Sabol and Alexandre massé discuss the discoveries that the CLIOHRES research network has made about identities: that

PrefaceI

identities are multiple, that they are at the same time personal, local, national, regional, religious, international, gendered....and that each individual draws on a great number of identitary factors every day in making his or her decisions, nding motivations for them and dening the ways in which they seem to make sense. Laurent Gaissad reminds us that identities, including sexual identities, may be linked with certain spaces: identities of all kinds and at all levels have spatial references too. e chapters chosen for the sections can only give a taste of the research carried out in each of these areas. nonetheless we hope they may be useful for the working groups in the bucharest seminar. We thank Aureliana popa and bogdan Rentea for making the selection and for their Introduction. We also thank Aureliana for choosing the cover design. It represents Atlas - according to Greek mythology forced by the gods to hold the heavens on his shoulders - in the ver- sion created for the videogame, "God of War 2". e design is contemporary, the story is ancient. Let us use both to help us understand ourselves and each other better.

Ann Katherine Isaacs

university of pisa

Guðmundur Hálfdanarson

university of Iceland

Introduction

Supreme over other kings, lordly in appearance,

he is the hero, born of uruk, the goring wild bull.

He walks out in front, the leader,

and walks at the rear, trusted by his companions. mighty net, protector of his people, raging ood-wave who destroys even walls of stone!

ăe Epic of Gilgamesh

tablet I (between 2700 bC and ca. 600 bC, mesopotamia) Gilgamesh, one of the few surviving mesopotamian myths, is about friendship, the fear of death and the search for immortality. Almost all of the action in Gilgamesh begins with a journey: Gilgamesh and Enkidu make a journey to the Cedar forest, Enkidu travels to the underworld, Gilgamesh travels to and then through the twin-peaked mountain mashu. Gilgamesh's many journeys mirror his internal journey to become a seless and devoted king. Having in mind that the work of a historian is a permanent journey, seeking to under- stand others, we decided that the topic of ISHA Summer Seminar 2011 in bucharest would be: "myths, Heroes and Identities". We were inspired by present-day history, by this globalization period and the search for identities in a sea of diversity. roughout history, there have been certain people who stand out from their con- temporaries. e stories of these people have passed on through time, from present, to story, to history, to myth, to legend. is people stood out due to their actions, or came to appear not to be bound by conventional human limits. In myth and legend, these people stand out as heroes, as people who deed the limits set on them, and overcame various challenges in order to change the world. Heroes are diverse in gender, colour and expression of human endeavour: explorers, missionaries, politicians, scientists, preachers, founders of polities, theologians. In the epoch of globalization an individual can still change the development of the country and even of the whole world - meaning that the hero, or heroine, can still exist today. We have selected een scholarly contributions that deal with our topic from sev- eral perspectives. Our aim was to create a global and coherent group of materials with which to gain interesting perspectives in analysing concepts such as: hero, myth, identities and culture. IV is reader has three major sections:

Section 1: myths as sources, myths as tools

Section 2: Gender History - understanding human roles

Section 3: national and cultural identities

e rst one analyses the idea of "the myth" in Greek history, as ancient Greece is one of the largest sources of materials about myths and heroes; then it passes through the medieval and modern periods and nally presents some new myths from com- munist times. e second Section focuses on the idea of gender dižerences, on discrimination and intolerance, while the third ožers a number of insights on how culture and ethnicity enter into the construction of national identities. On behalf of ISHA bucharest, we want to thank the European History networks and particularly the CLIOHRES network of Excellence for giving us the opportunity to use their scientic ndings and the CLIOHWORLD Erasmus Academic network for working with us to publish this Reader. We would like to thank Ann Katherine Isaacs is is the fourth publication of its kind. We hope that our selection of materials will be useful to all participants of the ISHA bucharest Summer Seminar.

Aureliana Popa

Bogdan Rentea

ISHA bucharest

Religion in Politics

Genealogical Myth and Political

Propaganda in Antiquity: the Re-Use of

Greek Myths from Dionysius to Augustus

mžž pžž Cž university pierre mendès france, Grenoble II

ABSTRACT

e tight relationship between religion and politics in ancient times are fully witnessed by the role of myth, used for purposes of legitimization and celebration of the reigning power. e chapter proposes to oer through the presentation of some examples of re-use of genealogical myths (the myth of Aeneas in Rome, of neoptolemus in Epirus and, rst of all, of polyphemus and Illyrios during the tyranny of Dionysius of Syracuse) a read- ing of the mechanisms of the historical period that led poets and historians of the court to use myth as a privileged means in the political propaganda of the ruling classes. L'utilisation des mythes pour la justivcation et la célébration du pouvoir constitue l'une des manifestations les plus éloquentes de la profonde imbrication entre religion et politique dans l'Antiquité. Le chapitre se propose ainsi de questionner la façon dont le discours my- thique s'imposa comme l'instrument privilégié de la propagande politique et de la recherche du consensus pour diāérents souverains.

Notre réčexion se réfèrera en particulier au mythe généalogique, récit visant à légitimer des

choix militaires, politiques ou diplomatiques sur la base de la reconstitution d'une ascendance mythique reliant directement un peuple, une famille ou un seul individu à un héros du passé

légendaire, de façon à lui conférer une sorte de titulus nobilitatis authentivant son autorité.

L'exemple le plus célèbre de ce phénomène demeure sans aucun doute la récupération du

mythe du débarquement et de l'installation d'Enée et de sa souche sur les côtes du Latium.

Promise à une renommée immortelle grâce aux vers virgiliens, la légende de la descendance

de la gens Iulia du vls du héros troyen, Iulus Ascanius, participa pleinement à la promotion

du principat d'Auguste (27 av. J.-C.- 14 ap. J.-C.), qui, par le biais de Jules César, son père

adoptif, fut directement associé à cette prestigieuse lignée. Le cas romain n'est pourtant pas isolé et la littérature ancienne témoigne d'autres exem- ples signivcatifs d'exploitation du patrimoine mythique par les dynasties au pouvoir. La famille royale des Molosses, en Epire, vt elle aussi appel à un nostos (récit du retour de la

Maria Paola Castiglioni

166maria paola Castiglioni

guerre de Troie) en exaltant ses origines à la fois achéennes et troyennes et sa ?liation de Pyrrhos Néoptolème, le ?ls d'Achille, et d'Andromaque, la veuve d'Hector, arrivés sur les

rivages épirotes après la destruction de Troie. La légende, déjà attestée au Vème s. av. J.-C.,

connut son apogée sous le règne de Pyrrhos (307-303, 297-272 av. J.-C.), roi homonyme de son ancêtre mythique. La version traditionnelle subit alors quelques changements a?n de mieux s'adapter aux visées militaires anti-romaines du roi, en vantant surtout la souche grecque du sang du souverain.

Une variante du même mythe mirait à exalter de façon plus générale la descendance ethnique de

Néoptolème, d'Andromaque et d'Hélénos, le devin troyen qui remplaça l'Eacide sur le trône épi-

rote, en établissant des liens généalogiques entre plusieurs peuples, dans le but de justi?er les al-

liances et les conquêtes molosses. Un schéma identique se retrouve dans le récit de la descendance

commune des Illyriens, des Celtes et des Galates, du cyclope Polyphème et de la nymphe Galatée.

Le chapitre s'intéresse tout particulièrement aux rapports entre cette légende et la politique étran-

gère de Denys de Syracuse (405-367 av. J.-C.), en mettant en avant les causes de la récupération

d'un personnage que la tradition homérique présentait sous une lumière incontestablement né-

gative, et les éléments qui ont contribué à la genèse de ce récit de propagande. Il est à cet égard important de remarquer l'existence d'un mythe concurrent, selon lequel

l'éponyme des Illyriens Illyrios n'était pas le ?ls du cyclope sicilien, mais du héros thébain

Cadmos, devenu après son exil de la Béotie roi légendaire des Enchéléens, tribu établie en

région illyrienne. Cette variante pourrait être l'expression d'une ?olonté d'autocélébration

de la dynastie enchéléenne qui se serait servie, à l'instar de sa ?oisine épirote, du caractère

anoblissant du mythe grec. Cette hypothèse d'une circulation des thèmes mythiques, ensuite

adaptés en fonction des situations spéci?ques, entre Epire, Illyrie et Sicile, nous paraît du

reste con?rmée par la tradition selon laquelle Philistos, historien et conseiller de Denys, composa son œuvre pendant son séjour chez le roi molosse Alcétas.

A la lumière de ces di?érents exemples, il apparaît évident que le discours mythologique,

habilement façonné par la plume des poètes et des historiens de cour, constitua un instru-quotesdbs_dbs35.pdfusesText_40
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