Wandering Greeks : the ancient Greek diaspora from the age of Homer to the death of Alexander the Great / Robert Garland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garland, Robert, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greeks--Migrations--History--To 1500.

Greeks.

Greece--Social conditions--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere-or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Maps

Preface

1. Prolegomena

2. The Wanderer

3. The Settler

4. The Portable Polis

5. The Deportee

6. The Evacuee

7. The Asylum-Seeker

8. The Fugitive

9. The Economic Migrant

10. The Itinerant

11. Repatriation

Conclusions

Envoi

Further Reading

Appendix A. The Terminology of Diaspora

Appendix B. Catalogue of Athenian Cleruchies and Colonies

Appendix C. Catalogue of Deportees

Appendix D. Catalogue of Exiles

Appendix E. Catalogue of the Enslaved

Chronology

Glossary

Bibliography

Index of Personal Names

Index of Place Names

Index of Sources

General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691173801

069117380X

9781400850259

1400850258

OCLC:

877868295