Affiliation:
1. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Abstract
The article devoted to the study of the formation of ethnic identity in Greek antiquity. The author focuses on the migration myth of the Boeotian ethnic group. This storytelling by Thucydides became a basis of the historiographical tradition. A lot of historians trusted to the migration myth like a real fact of past time. The author makes an attempt to reveal a real fact, which become a ground to the formation of migration myth of the Boeotian ethnic group.
Publisher
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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