« Origini » e « identità »

• Autores: Paolo Xella
• Localización: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité, ISSN 0223-5102, Vol. 126, Nº. 2, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: "Origines" : percorsi di ricerca sulle identità etniche nell'Italia antica )
• Idioma: italiano
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo
• Resumen

  • This study aims at re-examining the main aspects of the Phoenician identity issue in the light of current evaluations of the matter, in parallel with the problem of the Etruscan « origins », in order to show differences and similarities. A general premise provides some basic socio-anthropological parameters used in approaching the « identity » topic. A synthesis of the history of research follows, from the foundation of this field by Sabatino Moscati until contemporary status quaestionis. An evaluation of both direct and indirect evidence suggests that the term « Phoenician » is still useful, but only as a conventional definition and according to its heuristic value. In fact, from a chronological, geographic and cultural point of view, the current concept of Phoenician is too narrow and, instead of a national consciousness of identity, one must speak of urban identities, both in the Levant and in the Mediterranean diaspora, and not only for the Iron Age.