Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
- Author: Irad Malkin, Tel-Aviv University
- Date Published: July 2003
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521520249
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This book discusses Greek attitudes to settlement and territory as articulated through myths and cults. The emphasis is less on the poetic, timeless qualities of the myths, than on 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 colonisation - the Spartan Mediterranean - where the greater challenges to territorial possession and Sparta's acute self-awareness of her 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.
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- Date Published: July 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521520249
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- contains: 8 maps
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from June 2024
Table of Contents
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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