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The Returns of Odysseus

Colonization and Ethnicity

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The Returns of Odysseus

Colonization and Ethnicity

By: Irad Malkin

This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward after the Trojan War, Irad Malkin shows how these stories functioned to mediate encounters and conceptualize ethnicity and identity during the Archaic and Classical periods. Synthesizing a wide range of archaeological, mythological, and literary sources, this exceptionally learned book strengthens our understanding of early Greek exploration and city-founding along the coasts of the Western Mediterranean, reconceptualizes the role of myth in ancient societies, and revitalizes our understanding of ethnicity in antiquity. Malkin shows how the figure of Odysseus became a proto-colonial hero whose influence transcended the Greek-speaking world. The return-myths constituted a generative mythology, giving rise to oral poems, stories, iconographic imagery, rituals, historiographical interpretation, and the articulation of ethnic identities. Reassessing the role of Homer and alternative return-myths, the book argues for the active historical function of myth and collective representations and traces their changing roles through a spectrum of colonial perceptions—from the proto-colonial, through justifications of expansion and annexation, and up to decolonization.

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Univ of California Press

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0520920260

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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

By: Irad Malkin

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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

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Greek attitudes to settlement and territory were often articulated through myths and cults. This book emphasizes less the poetic, timeless qualities of the myths than their historical function in the archaic and Classical periods, covering the spectrum from explicit charter myths legitimating conquest, displacement, and settlement to the 'precedent-setting' and even aetiological myths, rendering new landscapes 'Greek'. This spectrum is broadest in the world of Spartan colonization – the Spartan Mediterranean – where the greater challenges to territorial possession and Sparta's acute self-awareness of its relative national youthfulness elicited explicit responses in the form of charter myths. The concept of a Spartan Mediterranean, in contrast to the image of a land-locked Sparta, is a major contribution of this book. This revised edition contains a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments on Sparta since the original publication.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009466054

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A Small Greek World

Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean

By: Irad Malkin

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A Small Greek World

Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean

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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.

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Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

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Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

By: Irad Malkin

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.

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1317999002

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Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

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Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.-- University of Pennsylvania)

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Mediterranean Cities

Historical Perspectives

By: Robert L. Hohlfelder,Irad Malkin

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Mediterranean Cities

Historical Perspectives

By: Robert L. Hohlfelder,Irad Malkin

First published in 1988. This is a collection of works where the Mediterranean provides the context for all the cities which appear in this volume: all are (or have been) port cities, and as such their harbours played a significant role in shaping their histories. In essence, the question of ‘interaction between man and sea’ is one of the influence of the maritime position on the human communities constituting the ‘Mediterranean cities’: the connections between them, and the link of each city with its hinterland, as well as the influence of its position on the city’s internal development and character.

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The Returns of Odysseus

Colonization and Ethnicity

By: Irad Malkin

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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

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Examines the use of mythology to justify conquest and colonization across the Spartan Mediterranean in the archaic and Classical periods.

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A Small Greek World

Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean

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Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.-- University of Pennsylvania)

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Drawing Lots

From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece

By: Irad Malkin,Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History Irad Malkin,Josine Blok,Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Civilization Josine Blok

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Drawing Lots

From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece

By: Irad Malkin,Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History Irad Malkin,Josine Blok,Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Civilization Josine Blok

This book offers the first comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central, ubiquitous institution of ancient Greek society. Led by an egalitarian mindset, Greeks drew lots as a matter of course to distribute inheritance, booty, sacrificial meat, and lands, to mix groups, select individuals, and set turns. Lot-oracles were used for divination; otherwise, the gods guarded the justice of the procedure but rarely determined the outcome. When drawing lots was gradually applied to polis governance, classical Athens made sortition the basis of the first democracy in human history. A Greek innovation, drawing lots for governance inspires new democratic politics today.

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Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

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Drawing Lots

From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece

By: Irad Malkin,Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History Irad Malkin,Josine Blok,Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Civilization Josine Blok

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From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece

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Mediterranean Cities

Historical Perspectives

By: Robert L. Hohlfelder,Irad Malkin

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Book's by Irad Malkin

The Returns of Odysseus

The Returns of Odysseus

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

A Small Greek World

A Small Greek World

Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

Mediterranean Cities

Mediterranean Cities

The Returns of Odysseus

The Returns of Odysseus

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

A Small Greek World

A Small Greek World

Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece

Drawing Lots

Drawing Lots

Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

Drawing Lots

Drawing Lots

Mediterranean Cities

Mediterranean Cities

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