Population displacements in Classical Greece and the formation of ‘displaced identity’: the case of the repatriated Samians, 322 B.C.
By James Hua (University of Oxford)
In this talk, I will argue that displaced populations in the Classical Greek world crafted a new ‘displaced identity’ that has not been noticed before. Moving beyond studies that focus on how expelled populations revived their civic identities and institutions (Gray 2015, 2017), I propose that these populations also created a new set of self-definitions that incorporated their experience of expulsion much more closely.