Irad Malkin

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses Greek attitudes to settlement and territory as articulated through myths and cults.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521520249
• ISBN-10: 052152024X
• Artikelnr.: 21779430

Autorenporträt

IRAD MALKIN is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University. He is also a laureate of the Israel Prize for History, a foreign member of the Athens Academy, and co-founder and co-editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review. His books include Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (1987), The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity (1998), A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (2011), and Drawing Lots: from Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece, with J. Blok (2024).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The 'colony of the Dorians' and the Return of the Herakleidai
2. The Homeric king of Sparta: Menelaos in a Spartan Mediterranean
3. Spartan colonisation in the Aegean and the Peloponnese
4. Taras: native hostility, territorial possession, and a new-ancient past
5. Foundation and territory: the cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon
6. Myth and colonial territory: Libya
7. Promises unfulfilled: Dorieus between North Africa and Sicily
8. Myth and decolonization: Sparta's colony at Herakleia Trachinia.