Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

Klappentext This book discusses Greek attitudes to settlement and territory as articulated through myths and cults. Zusammenfassung This book discusses Greek attitudes to settlement and territory as articulated through myths and cults. It covers the spectrum from explicit charter myths legitimating conquest! displacement! and settlement! to the 'precedent-setting' and even aetiological myths! rendering new landscapes 'Greek'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The 'colony of the Dorians' and the Return of the Herakleidai; 2. The Homeric king of Sparta: Menelaos in a Spartan Mediterranean; 3. Spartan colonisation in the Aegean and the Peloponnese; 4. Taras: native hostility, territorial possession, and a new-ancient past; 5. Foundation and territory: the cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon; 6. Myth and colonial territory: Libya; 7. Promises unfulfilled: Dorieus between North Africa and Sicily; 8. Myth and decolonization: Sparta's colony at Herakleia Trachinia.

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• Authors: Irad Malkin, Irad (Tel-Aviv University) Malkin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2003
• EAN: 9780521520249
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52024-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Ancient, General & world history, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, Ancient religions and Mythologies