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A Small Greek World

A Small Greek World

Malkin, Irad

Hardcover

Series: Greeks Overseas

Ancient GreeceFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 019973481X
ISBN13: 9780199734818
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 1 2011
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. It emerged during the Archaic period when Greeks founded coastal city states and trading stations in ever-widening horizons from the Ukraine to Spain. No center directed their diffusion: mother cities were numerous and the new settlements (colonies) would often engender more settlements. The Greek center was at sea; it was formed through back-ripple effects of cultural convergence, following the physical divergence of independent settlements. The shores of Greece are like hems stitched onto the lands of Barbarian peoples (Cicero). Overall, and regardless of distance, settlement practices became Greek in the making and Greek communities far more resembled each other than any of their particular neighbors like the Etruscans, Iberians, Scythians, or Libyans. The contrast between center and periphery hardly mattered (all was peri-, around), nor was a bi-polar contrast with Barbarians of much significance.

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