Greeks Overseas – serie
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Italy's Lost Greece
Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology
Inbunden, 2012
2139 kr
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Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy--an area known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This "Greater Greece," at once Greek and Italian, has continuously been perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden age, …
A Small Greek World
Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
Av Irad Malkin
Inbunden, 2011
2033 kr
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Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. It emerged during the Archaic period when Greeks founded coastal city states and trading stations in ever-widening horizons from the Ukraine to Spain. No center directed their …
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West
Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire
Inbunden, 2015
2178 kr
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The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives, " that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about …
The Invention of Greek Ethnography
From Homer to Herodotus
Häftad, 2016
1129 kr
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Greek knowledge of and interest in foreign peoples is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with a wider sense of "Greekness" that emerged during the Hellenic encounter with Achaemenid Persia during the late sixth to early fifth centuries BC. The dramatic nature of this "clash of …
Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily
A Social and Economic History
Häftad, 2018
653 kr
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Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Explanations for these similarities and differences have been hotly debated. On the one hand, some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one in a long line of migrants who …
Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes
Inbunden, 2019
2231 kr
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Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local traditions for Pindar to …
Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily
A Social and Economic History
Inbunden, 2016
2422 kr
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Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for these similarities and differences have been heavily debated, with attention focusing in particular on the roles played on this …
The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy
Inbunden, 2021
1469 kr
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The Politics of Identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy offers the first sustained analysis of the relationship between collective identity and politics in the Greek West during the period c. 600-200 BCE. Greeks defined their communities in multiple and varied ways, including a separate polis …
A Small Greek World
Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
Av Irad Malkin
Häftad, 2013
921 kr
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Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. It emerged during the Archaic period when Greeks founded coastal city states and trading stations in ever-widening horizons from the Ukraine to Spain. No center directed their …
Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C.
Inbunden, 2015
2441 kr
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This groundbreaking book attempts a fully contextualized reading of the poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse in the 470s BC. It argues that the victory odes and other occasional songs composed by Pindar for the Sicilian tyrant were part of an extensive cultural program that included …
The Invention of Greek Ethnography
From Homer to Herodotus
Inbunden, 2012
2375 kr
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Greek ethnography is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with the wider sense of Greek identity that emerged during the Greeks' "encounter with the barbarian"--Achaemenid Persia--during the late sixth to early fifth centuries BC. The dramatic nature of this meeting, it was thought, …
