Christopher S Parmenter
Christopher Stedman Parmenter is an ancient historian specializing in the intertwined histories of race, culture, and long-distance trade in Archaic and Classical Greece. I am an Assistant Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University. Previously I held postdocs at the University of Pennsylvania (2021-22) and New York University (2020-21), where I also received my doctorate in Classics. My book project, entitled Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE, asks how and why Greeks came to see their Mediterranean neighbors—like the “grey-eyed Thracians” and “dark-skinned Ethiopians” listed by the poet Xenophanes around 550 BCE—as racialized ‘Others’ in the middle of the first millennium. In 2021-22, I was a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America. As a side project, I have published on race, migration, and the history of the Armenian American diaspora on Ajam Media Collective.
Supervisors: Barbara Kowalzig, Andrew Monson, David Konstan, Joan Breton Connelly, and Clemente Marconi
Supervisors: Barbara Kowalzig, Andrew Monson, David Konstan, Joan Breton Connelly, and Clemente Marconi
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https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2020.39.1.57
ERRATUM:
p. 59 -- 'Democracy and Capitalism' should read 'Capitalism and Slavery' (correct in bibliography)
https://ajammc.com/2019/11/17/george-kevork-race-law-michaelian-family/
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3286608
Archaic Greek attempts to explain foreign bodies were rarely pejorative, and Racialized Commodities begins with some of their earliest images of African peoples, described by Greeks as Egyptians or Ethiopians, before seeking to explain what changed in the early Classical Period. As the Persian Empire loomed and Greek cities became increasingly dependent on enslaved labor, negative stereotypes of Thracians and Scythians became widespread and coalesced into the charged idea of the barbaros--the "barbarian."
Email me for the .pdf if you don't have access!
https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2020.39.1.57
ERRATUM:
p. 59 -- 'Democracy and Capitalism' should read 'Capitalism and Slavery' (correct in bibliography)
https://ajammc.com/2019/11/17/george-kevork-race-law-michaelian-family/
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=article&id=3286608
Archaic Greek attempts to explain foreign bodies were rarely pejorative, and Racialized Commodities begins with some of their earliest images of African peoples, described by Greeks as Egyptians or Ethiopians, before seeking to explain what changed in the early Classical Period. As the Persian Empire loomed and Greek cities became increasingly dependent on enslaved labor, negative stereotypes of Thracians and Scythians became widespread and coalesced into the charged idea of the barbaros--the "barbarian."