The World of the Western Greeks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomas, Kathryn.

Series:

Routledge Worlds Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greeks--Colonization--Mediterranean Region.

Greeks.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization--Greek influences.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

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

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (811 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

This volume presents studies by international experts on aspects of the society, economy, religion, culture, and history of the Greek settlements of the ancient western Mediterranean, one of the most innovative areas of the ancient Greek world.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Maps

A Note on Names

Abbreviations

Preface

1 Introduction: Approaching the Western Greeks

Concepts and Models

2 Concepts and Models of Settlement in the Western Mediterranean

3 Cultural Networks and Identities in the Western Mediterranean

4 Myth and Identity

5 Framing Greek Presence in the West: A Sociology of 'Greek Colonisation'

6 Postcolonial Criticism and Magna Graecia

Historical and Archaeological Development

7 Explorers, Traders, Pirates and Refugees: The Aegean Presence in Southern Italy and Sicily before Greek Colonisation

8 The Earliest Greek Settlements in Italy and Sicily: Sources and Evidence

9 From Settlement to Polis: The Establishment of the Greek City in the Seventh-Sixth Centuries BC

10 Archaic and Classical Magna Graecia: Lines of Historical Development

11 Sicily in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries

12 Sicily from Dionysius I to the Roman Sack of Syracuse

13 The Roman Conquest: Magna Graecia from Pyrrhus to Hannibal

14 From Greek to Roman: Magna Graecia from the End of the Punic Wars to the Warly Empire

15 Roman Sicily

Greeks and Others: Greeks and Non-Greeks in the Western Mediterranean

16 Greeks and Others in Campania

17 Greeks, Lucanians, and Brettians

18 "A Bane to the Iapygians": Greek-Indigenous Relations in Southeast Italy

19 Sicans and Greeks in Central Western Sicily in the Archaic Age

20 Greeks and Phoenicians in Sicily and Magna Graecia

21 The Western Greek World and Central Italy: Contacts with Etruria and Rome

22 Greeks, Greek Settlements and Relations with Non-Greeks in the Far Occident (France and Spain) (Seventh-First Centuries BC).

Agriculture, Trade, Craft Production and Material Culture

23 Landscape, Rural Settlement and Agrarian Production in Archaic Magna Graecia and Sicily: A Landscape Archaeological View

24 Agriculture and Agrarian Changes in Magna Graecia in the Roman Period

25 The Straits of Otranto: A Network Node in Mediterranean Trade from the Archaic to Late Hellenistic Periods

26 Building the City: Urban Development in the Archaic and Classical Periods

27 Public Architecture in Sicily and Magna Grecia

28 Domestic Architecture: Rural Housing in Magna Graecia and Sicily between the Fourth and the First Centuries BC

29 Greek Sculpture in Sicily and South Italy from the Geometric to the Classical Period

30 Apulian and Lucanian Red-Figure Pottery: Production, use and Reception

31 Textile Production in Magna Graecia

32 Coins and the Transfer of Cultures in Magna Graecia and Sicily

Culture and Society in the Greek West

33 Ruling the City: Civic Constitutions, Law Codes and their Development

34 Armies, Mercenaries, and the Nature of War

35 Women in the Colonial and Indigenous World

36 Shaping (and Rethinking) the Sacred in Magna Graecia: Sanctuaries, Votives and Ritual Practices in the Western Colonies

37 Sport, Games and Athletic Festivals in Magna Graecia and Sicily

38 Literacy and the Development of Writing in the Western Mediterranean

39 Medicine in Magna Graecia

40 Science and Engineering

41 The Development of Philosophy in Magna Graecia

42 Poetry and Performance in the Greek West

43 Feasting, Drinking, and Food in the Culture of Magna Graecia

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-79220-4

0-429-43685-8

0-429-79221-2

9780429436857

OCLC:

1525620275

Publisher Number:

CIPO000232624