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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784830403321

Autore

Dougherty Carol

Titolo

The poetics of colonization : from city to text in archaic Greece / / Carol Dougherty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1993

ISBN

0-19-770497-2

1-280-76032-X

0-19-535923-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 209 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

880.9/321732

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Greece - Historiography

City and town life in literature

Colonies in literature

Greek literature - History and criticism

Imperialism in literature

Literature and history - Greece

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500

Poetics - History - To 1500

Rhetoric, Ancient

Greece Colonies Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: The Poetics of Colonization; Part I. Narratives and Metaphors: Translating the City into Text; Part II. Texts in Context: Staging the City; Conclusion: Interpreting the Metaphors; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of Passages; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural



appropriation.