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Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

Malkin, Irad
Purcell, Nicholas

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Classical Classics

Ancient Greece

ISBN10: 1009466089
ISBN13: 9781009466080
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 13 2024
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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