Men of Sea. The making of an Identity
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https://doi.org/10.24858/117Palabras clave:
Antiguidade, Mediterráneo, mar, marinos, identidadeResumen
This paper pretends to deal with the identity of the people who sailed the sea –specifically professional sailors– in Antiquity. Although we don’t deny singularities into the different Men of Sea who lived in this period, there are some aspects that are common to every sailor concerning their conditions of life and work regardless of their very different origins. In fact, their life-style clashed directly with the earth based society. These features shaped an identity that is more evident to recognize when we use ancient sources, which writers always came from the highest hierarchies of their societies or acted as speakers of these, that usually scorned the sailors because of the terrible fear that sea aroused on them, the nature of their economic activities, their different customs and the liberty that enjoyed Men of Sea because they could pollute the established order. In fact, we can speak of a mariner identity in opposition to the earthly-based society.
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