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Greek colonization in local contexts : case studies in colonial interactions
Greek Colonization in Local Context' takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural interaction, transformation and the repercussions and local reactions to colonization in social, religious and cultural terms. Papers examine the archaeological evidence for cultural interaction in a series of case studies from locations around the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, at a variety of scales. Contributors consider the effects of colonization on urban life and developments in cities and smaller settlements as well as in the rural landscapes surrounding and supporting them. This collection of new papers by leading scholars reveals fascinating details of the native response to the imposition of Greek rule and the indigenous input into early state development in the Mediterranean and adjacent regions.
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Greek Colonization in Local Contexts
Greek Colonization in Local Context takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural interaction, transformation and the repercussions and local reactions to colonization in social, religious and cultural terms. Papers examine the archaeological evidence for cultural interaction in a series of case studies from locations around the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, at a variety of scales. Contributors consider the effects of colonization on urban life and developments in cities and smaller settlements as well as in the rural landscapes surrounding and supporting them. This collection of new papers by leading scholars reveals fascinating details of the native response to the imposition of Greek rule and the indigenous input into early state development in the Mediterranean and adjacent regions.
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The seer and the city : religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece
\"Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in colonial discourse from the archaic and classical periods. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse's privileging of the city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, entails a corresponding suppression of the seer. Foster explains why the seer's authority conflicts with that of the founder and investigates a sequence of literary works from a range of genres that showcase this dynamic. The first study to analyze the seer and the Delphi-sanctioned founder relationally, this volume illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa
This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen's organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red Sea Basin, and North Africa from 331 to 31 BCE. Organized geographically, the volume pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects. Cohen's magisterial breadth of focus enables him to provide more than a compilation of information; the volume also contributes to ongoing questions and will point the way toward new avenues of inquiry.
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Venice's Mediterranean colonies : architecture and urbanism
This text examines the architecture and urbanism of the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean, looking at how their built environments expressed cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium.
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The Hellenistic settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India
This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen’s important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In this book, Cohen provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the Graeco-Macedonian settlements founded (or refounded) in the East. Organized geographically, Cohen pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects, making a distinct contribution to ongoing questions and opening new avenues of inquiry.
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The poetics of colonization : from city to text in archaic Greece
Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story-lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of the Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement.
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Xenocracy : State, Class and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864
\"Of the many European territorial reconfigurations to result from the Congress of Vienna, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during the ensuing half-century of oversight by Great Britain--a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British imperial expansion. Administrators deliberately pursued liberal reforms and fostered the growth of a middle class that was instrumental in building the colonial state. However, Ionian finances deteriorated and fissures appeared along class lines, presenting a significant threat to social stability. As author Sakis Gekas shows, the ordeal fueled an ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the 'neocolonial' condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today\"--From publisher's website.
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Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia
In Vergil's Aeneid , the poet implies that those who
have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation
both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new
insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world,
particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially
the area of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily).
Implementing a variety of methodologies, the contributors to
Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia examine an array of features
associated with such \"mystery religions\" that were concerned with
individual salvation through initiation and hidden knowledge rather
than civic cults directed toward Olympian deities usually
associated with Greek religion. Contributors present contemporary
theories of ancient religion, field reports from recent
archaeological work, and other frameworks for exploring mystic
cults in general and individual deities specifically, with
observations about cultural interactions throughout. Topics include
Dionysos and Orpheus, the Goddess Cults, Isis in Italy, and Roman
Mithras, explored by an international array of scholars including
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro (\"Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna
Graecia\") and Alberto Bernabé (\"Imago Inferorum Orphica\"). The
resulting volume illuminates this often misunderstood range of
religious phenomena.
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