A Laconian Deipnon in a Persian Skenē: Food-Based Identity Rhetoric in the Histories

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Jessica M. Romney
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This article examines two instances in the Histories (1.133.2, 9.82.1–3) where Herodotus compares Greek and Persian meals to one another. Although these comparisons appear to reinforce identity rhetoric which sets a Greek “Us” against a Persian “Them,” I argue that when situated within the larger narrative of the Histories and Herodotus’ discussions of ethnic foodways, the comparisons reinforce the basic similarity of Persians and Greeks as peoples whose diet depends on sitos, or cooked grain. This similarity in diet suggests a similarity in identity as Herodotus destabilizes contemporary identity rhetoric opposing Greeks (as a whole or as individual groups) and Persians.
波斯语斯肯伊语中的拉克onian Deipnon:历史中基于食物的身份修辞
本文考察了历史(1.133.2,9.82.1-3)中的两个例子,其中希罗多德将希腊和波斯的食物相互比较。虽然这些比较似乎强化了希腊人的“我们”和波斯人的“他们”的身份修辞,但我认为,当置于历史的更大叙事和希罗多德关于民族饮食方式的讨论中,这些比较强化了波斯人和希腊人的基本相似性,因为他们的饮食依赖于sitos,或煮熟的谷物。这种饮食上的相似性表明了希罗多德在身份认同上的相似性,因为希罗多德破坏了当代反对希腊人(作为一个整体或个体群体)和波斯人的身份认同修辞。
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