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Record Nr.

UNISA996217914203316

Autore

Malkin Irad

Titolo

A small Greek world : networks in the Ancient Mediterranean / / Irad Malkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-19-931572-8

1-283-42330-8

9786613423306

0-19-987597-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Greeks overseas

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Greeks - Mediterranean Region - History

Greeks - Colonization - Mediterranean Region

Greece Colonies Mediterranean Region

Greece Civilization To 146 B.C

Mediterranean Region Civilization Greek influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : networks and history -- Island networking and Hellenic convergence : from Rhodes to Naukratis -- Sicily and the Greeks : Apollo Archegetes and the Sikeliote network -- Herakles and Melqart : networking heroes -- Networks and middle grounds in the Western Mediterranean -- Cult and identity in the Far West : Phokaians, Ionians, and Hellenes.

Sommario/riassunto

Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. This book looks at how Greek the network shaped a small Greek world where separation is measured by degrees of contact rather than by physical dimensions.