A small Greek world
Subtitle: networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
By: Irad Malkin
Series: Greeks overseas; Greeks overseas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780199734818
Subjects: Greek influences; Civilization; Greeks; Colonies; History; Colonization
Description: Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. This book looks at how Greek the network shaped a small Greek world where separation is measured by degrees of contact rather than by physical dimensions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : networks and history; title: Island networking and Hellenic convergence : from Rhodes to Naukratis; title: Sicily and the Greeks : Apollo Archegetes and the Sikeliote network; title: Herakles and Melqart : networking heroes; title: Networks and middle grounds in the Western Mediterranean; title: Cult and identity in the Far West : Phokaians, Ionians, and Hellenes.