Greek identity in the western Mediterranean : papers in honour of Brian Shefton / edited by Kathryn Lomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shefton, Brian B.

Lomas, Kathryn, 1960-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 246.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 246

Language:

English

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

Greeks--Western Mediterranean--Ethnic identity--History--To 1500.

Greeks.

Pottery, Greek--Western Mediterranean.

Pottery, Greek.

Ethnicity.

History.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxii, 504 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Papers in honour of Brian Shefton

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English, German and Italian.

Summary:

This collection of essays, in honour of Professor B.B. Shefton, provides an innovative exploration of the culture of the Greek colonies of the Western Mediterranean, their relations with their non-Greek neigbours, and the evolution of distinctive regional identities.

Contents:

Brian B. Shefton xvii

Early Western Colonisation

Euboeans and others along the Tyrrhenian Seaboard in the 8th century B.C. / David Ridgway 15

How 'Greek' were the early western Greeks? / Jonathan Hall 35

Representations of Identity

Siculo-gcometric and the Sikels: Ceramics and identity in eastern Sicily / Carla Antonaccio 55

The identity of early Greek pottery in Italy and Spain: an archaeometric perspective / Richard Jones, Jaume Buxeda I Garrigos 83

Phokaische Thalassokratie Oder Phantom-Phokaer? Die Fruhgriechischen Keramikfunde Im Suden Der Iberischen Halbinsel Aus Der Agaischen Perspektive / Michael Kerschner 115

Copies of pottery: By and for whom? / John Boardman 149

A short history of pygmies in Greece and Italy / Maurizio Harari 163

Purloined Letters: the Aristonothos inscription and krater / Vedia Izzet 191

Un dono per gli dei: kantharoi e gigantomachie. A proposito di un kantharos a figure nere da Gravisca / Mario Torelli 211

Neben- und Miteinander in archaischer Zeit: Die Beziehungen von Italikern und Etruskern zum griechischen Poseidonia / Mario Rausch 229

Go West, Go Native / John Barron 259

Some Greek inscriptions on native vases from South East Italy / Alastair Small 267

Hecataeus' knowledge of the Western Mediterranean / Thomas Braun 287

Regional Studies of Colonial Identity

The Greeks on the Venetian Lagoon / Lorenzo Braccesi 349

The Greek Identity at Metaponto / Joseph C. Carter 363

Euesperides: Cyrenaica and its contacts with the Greek world / David W.J. Gill 391

The Greek man in the Iberian Street: non-colonial Greek identity in Spain and southern France / Javier de Hoz 411

Greek identity in the Phocaean colonies / Adolfo J. Dominguez 429

Greek Identity in the Hellenistic and Roman West

[characters not reproducible] Notes on tyrannies in Sicily between the death of Agathocles and the coming of Pyrrhus (289-279 B.C.) / Efrem Zambon 457

Hellenism, Romanization and cultural identity in Massalia / Kathryn Lomas 475.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Brian Shefton's works (pages xx-xxii).

ISBN:

9004133003

OCLC:

52575915