Mediterranean paradigms and classical antiquity / edited by Irad Malkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malkin, Irad, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient.

Greeks--Colonization--Mediterranean Region.

Greeks.

Romans--Colonization--Mediterranean Region.

Romans.

Ethnicity--Mediterranean Region.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquty (Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world.This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Mediterranean Historical Review.

Contents:

Cover; Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Boundless Sea of Unlikeness? On Defining the Mediterranean; Not ours: some difficulties with appropriation; What kind of edges? towards Mediterranean dÉsenclavement; Mediterraneanization; Why now?; What does it mean?; Conclusions; Networks and the Emergence of Greek Identity; Cognitive maps; Delphi; Human and mythical heroes and the Hellenic networks; Founding the mother city?; Conclusion; Cultures, Landscapes, and Identities in the Mediterranean World

The exploitation of landAvailability of land in the archaic Greek world; The social and political context of agrarian landscapes; Technology, labour, and land; Interpreting agrarian landscapes; Land divisions and the exploitation of the countryside in the archaic Greek world; Conclusion; A Peculiar Island: Maghrib and Mediterranean; Pre/history; One faith; Envoi; A Sea of Faith?; Mediterraneanism as strategy; Choosing paradigms for ancient religious history; Characteristically Mediterranean forms of cult?; Ancient religions in space; Conclusion; Chapter Abstracts; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

"Transferred to Digital Printing 2009"--T.p. verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 26, 2016).

ISBN:

1-315-87920-4

1-317-99900-2

9781315879208

OCLC:

958101868