Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

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AvIrad Malkin,Irad (Tel-Aviv University) Malkin

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Greek attitudes to settlement and territory were often articulated through myths and cults. This book emphasizes less the poetic, timeless qualities of the myths than their historical function in the archaic and Classical periods, covering the spectrum from explicit charter myths legitimating conquest, displacement, and settlement to the 'precedent-setting' and even aetiological myths, rendering new landscapes 'Greek'. This spectrum is broadest in the world of Spartan colonization - the Spartan Mediterranean - where the greater challenges to territorial possession and Sparta's acute self-awareness of its relative national youthfulness elicited explicit responses in the form of charter myths. The concept of a Spartan Mediterranean, in contrast to the image of a land-locked Sparta, is a major contribution of this book. This revised edition contains a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments on Sparta since the original publication.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-13
Mått159 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Classical Classics
Antal sidor334
Upplaga2
FörlagCambridge University Press
MedarbetarePurcell,Nicholas
ISBN9781009466080

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IRAD MALKIN is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University. He is also a laureate of the Israel Prize for History, a foreign member of the Athens Academy, and co-founder and co-editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review. His books include Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (1987), The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity (1998), A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (2011), and Drawing Lots: from Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece, with J. Blok (2024).

List of maps; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note; Introduction to the second edition; 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 colonization 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; Bibliography; Index.

'…This is a wide-ranging, intellectually stimulating and scholarly book which makes an important contribution to the cognitive history of Greek antiquity. Ultimately, the judicious and disciplined analysis of myths as historical formulations of a Spartan self-concept represents a more fruitful approach to the Lakonian past than undue reliance on the refracted perceptions of Athenian writers.' Jonathan M. Hall, University of Chicago

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