Greek and Roman Colonization
Subtitle: Origins, Ideologies And Interactions
Contributors: Edward Bispham (Contributor); Michael Crawford (Contributor); David Gill (Contributor); Guy Bradley (Editor); John-Paul Wilson (Editor)
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Published: July 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781905125067
Subjects: Colonization & independence; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); Ancient Greece - History; History; History - General History; Medieval; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Greece; Emigration & Immigration; Ancient - Rome; Colonies; Colonization; Greece; Rome
Description: "The term 'colonization' encompasses much diversity, from the settlement of the western Mediterranean and the Black Sea by Greeks in the archaic period to the foundation of Roman colonies in mainland Italy during the Republic. Though very different in their motives and methods, both Greek and Roman colonizations are presented by our sources as organized and clearly defined processes, within which internal and external relations were firmly delineated. This volume contains six new studies, two Greek and four Roman. Contributors employ historiographical, comparative and postcolonial approaches to question ancient constructs. The book contains detailed case-studies as well as synoptic treatments. Contributors build on recent research in Greek and Roman history to show how ideologies of colonization develop and come to dominate the historical record."--BOOK JACKET.