A Small Greek World - Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean

Zusatztext this book succeeds in evoking a compelling image of The Greek Wide Web as multidirectional! decentralized! nonhierarchical! boundless and proliferating! accessible! expansive! and interactive. Informationen zum Autor Irad Malkin is Cummings Chair for Mediterranean History and Culture, Tel Aviv University and Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University Klappentext This book claims it was a network-dynamics of Small World formation that rapidly foreshortened Mediterranean spaces, thus allowing the flows of civilizational content and self-aware notions of collective identity to overlap and proliferate. Zusammenfassung This book claims it was a network-dynamics of Small World formation that rapidly foreshortened Mediterranean spaces, thus allowing the flows of civilizational content and self-aware notions of collective identity to overlap and proliferate. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements A note on transliteration Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Networks and History 2. Island Networking and Hellenic Convergence: From Rhodes to Naukratis 3. Sicily and the Greeks: Apollo Archêgetês and the Sikeliote Network 4. Herakles and Melqart: Networking Heroes 5. Networks and Middle Grounds in the Western Mediterranean 6. Cult and Identity in the Far West: Phokaians, Ionians, and Hellenes Conclusion

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Malkin, Irad Malkin
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780199734818
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973481-8
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Greeks Overseas
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology