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A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Maps -- Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Greeks across the Ancient World -- Notes -- References -- Part I Approaches, Ancient and Modern -- Chapter 1 Mobility in the Ancient Gre...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newark
: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
, 2020
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| Series: | Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser
v.158 |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6193102 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Maps -- Illustrations and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Greeks across the Ancient World -- Notes -- References -- Part I Approaches, Ancient and Modern -- Chapter 1 Mobility in the Ancient Greek World: Diversity of Causes, Variety of Vocabularies1 -- Categories of Mobility -- Mass Mobility -- Forced Migrations of Populations -- Personal Mobility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 English-Speaking Traditions and the Study of the Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands -- Motherlands, Colonies, and the Marginalization of Greeks on the Margins -- Apoikiai, Emporia, and the Polis -- Greeks and Non-Greeks -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3 French-Speaking Traditions and the Study of Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands1 -- The Century When it all Began -- Victor and Jean BeĢrard, from the Sea to the Earth -- Ceramics and Commerce -- Southern France: The Birth of a Field Laboratory -- Roland Martin and Urban Spaces -- Between Apoikiai and Emporia -- Territories -- A History of Style -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 German-speaking Traditions (including the Habsburg Empire) and the Study of the Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands -- Changing Perspectives on "Colonization" -- The "Greek" People/Race/State(s)/Nation(s) -- Overpopulation versus Trade -- Texts and Pots -- A Postcolonial Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Italian-Speaking Traditions and the Study of the Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands -- Pre-unification Italy: Monarchies and Invasions -- Nationalism 1861-1945: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome -- The Postwar Internationalism: Greeks as Olive Branch? -- Conclusions -- References. Chapter 6 Tsarist Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Traditions and the Study of Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands -- Greeks in the Black Sea -- Greeks in Central Asia1 -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7 Models of Culture Contact and Cultural Change: Moving Beyond National and Linguistic Traditions -- Migration Theories -- Macro Theories -- Micro Theories -- The Social and Cultural Context of Migration -- Migrants and their Motivations -- Elite(s) -- Outsiders, Exiles/Refugees, and Mercenaries -- Captives and Slaves -- Itinerant Diviners and Wandering Poets -- Craftsmen and Merchants -- Settlers -- The Relationship between Migrants and Local Populations -- Culture, Cultural Contact, and Cultural Change -- Figuration -- Consumption -- Network -- Cultural Change -- References -- Part II Regional Case Studies -- Chapter 8 Phoenicians and Greeks as Comparable Contemporary Migrant Groups -- Defining "Phoenician" -- Settlement Types -- Historical Context -- Comparative Urban Organization -- Impermanent or Dependent Non-Citizen Settlements -- Permanent Independent Citizen Settlements -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Neo-Assyrian through Persian Empires -- Dimensions of Encounter -- Contacts and Perceptions Through Time -- Neo-Assyrian Times (Eighth-Seventh Centuries) -- Neo-Babylonian Times (Sixth Century) -- Persian Times (Sixth to Fourth Centuries) -- List of Abbreviations -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10 Greeks in Iron Age Central Europe: Patterns of Interaction and Change -- The Setting: Early Iron Age Central Europe -- Greek Activity in Central Europe, Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC -- Imports -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Cultural Practices -- The Impact of Greek Interaction: The Heuneburg and the Hohenasperg -- Display, Performance, Meanings: The Significance of the Greek Contacts -- Mechanisms and Effects. Greek Activity in Central Europe: Fourth and Third Centuries BC -- Mercenary Soldiers -- Coins and Coinage -- Greek Activity in Central Europe: Second and First Centuries BC -- Conclusion: Lasting Effects -- References -- Chapter 11 Anatolia -- Geography -- Late Bronze Age -- Migration and the Early Iron Age -- The Eighth to Seventh Centuries BC -- Expansion -- The Seventh Century and Lydia -- Persia and Revolt -- The Influence of Anatolia -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12 Greeks on the Island of Cyprus: "At home" on the Frontiers -- "Going Back Home from Greece" -- Greekness: A Shared Language -- Immutable Properties -- Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age -- Early Iron Age -- Archaic and Classical Cyprus -- Hellenistic Cyprus -- References -- Chapter 13 Southern Italy -- Boundaries and Toponyms -- Routes, Contacts, and Local Populations -- Apoikiai: Far from Home -- From the Archaic Period to the Roman Conquest: Some Highlights -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14 Sicily -- Geography -- Historical Sources -- Non-Greek Populations -- Greek Settlement of Sicily -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 15 The Adriatic Sea and Region1 -- Perceptions -- Regional Contexts -- Colonies? -- Economic Exchanges -- Cultural Contacts and Encounters -- Piracy -- The Turning Point of the Fourth and Third Centuries -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16 Cyrenaica -- Geography -- Libyans and Egypt -- The Foundation of Cyrene -- Cyrenaica and Persia -- Libyan Tribes and Customs -- Archaeology of the Early Settlements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 17 Egypt -- Geographical and Historical Summary -- The Bronze Age/Early Iron Age -- Saite Egypt (656-525 BC) -- Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 18 The Phocaeans in the Far Western Mediterranean -- The Regional Context Around 600 BCE. The Societies of the Western Mediterranean from the Sixth Century BCE to the Second Punic War -- The Process of the Phocaean Expansion: First Contacts -- The First Permanent Settlement: Massalia and Emporion -- The Second Phase of the Phocaean Expansion -- Greeks, Phoenicians, and Etruscans -- The Phocaeans and the Indigenous Populations -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19 The Northern Aegean -- The Local Inhabitants -- Greeks in the Northern Aegean -- Regional Cultural Physiognomy -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20 The Black Sea -- Early Greek Ventures and Settlements in the Region -- Worshipping the Healer, the Lady of Apatouron, and the Lord of Scythia -- Natural Resources, Trade, and Economy -- Cemeteries and Funerary Material -- Tumuli Burials -- Grave Stelai -- Identity in the Afterlife -- The City Territories -- The Crisis in the Third Century BC -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21 The Greeks in the East in the Hellenistic Period -- Historical Summary -- Land, Climate, and the Economy -- The Establishment of the Greeks in the East -- Aspects of Greek Life -- King, Cities, and Friends -- The Greek Administration -- Coinage -- The Armed Forces -- The Spread of Greek Culture -- Continuity under the Persians and Parthians -- The Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Themes -- Chapter 22 Greeks and Cultural Development in the Pre-Roman Mediterranean -- The Greeks and Mediterraneanization -- Urban Development -- Exchange and Consumption -- The Alphabet -- Coinage -- Religious Syncretism -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 23 Relations with Homelands: Apoikia and Metropol(e) is -- Heuristic and Methodical Problems -- Conceptual Problems - and Possible Solutions -- Types of Relationships, Their Prerequisites and Conditions -- Conclusion. References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24 The Making of Greece: Contributions from the Edges1 -- The Situation in the Peripheral Regions -- The Pulsating Sixth Century: Formations of Power and Intensifying Overseas Trade -- Organization of Hegemonial Rule after the Persian Wars -- The Periphery Strikes Back: The Rise of Marginal Powers in the Fourth Century -- Religion, Philosophy, and Science -- Note -- References -- Index -- EULA. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (579 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781118341360 |
