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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521520249
Veröffentl:
2003
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
21.05.2003
Seiten:
300
Autor:
Irad Malkin
Gewicht:
490 g
Format:
229x152x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book discusses Greek attitudes to settlement and territory as articulated through myths and cults.
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.