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Foreign Founders
2014,2015
Overview
Greeks mostly saw themselves as newly arrived, foreigners in the lands that they were occupying. This is true of most mainland Greeks, those who considered themselves migrants to the Aegean and Asia Minor (in what we call the “Dark Ages”), and of the settlers in the new foundations in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, following the second half of the eighth century BC. Such self-images are quite different from those we meet in the ancient Near East. The city of Eridu, for example, seems to have existed since the creation of the world.¹
In the extremely rich corpus of
