Greek Colonisation: An Account Of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas: Volume 1 (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

649 Pages·2006·9.79 MB·English

by  Tsetskhladze

GREEK COLONISATION
AN ACCOUNT OF
GREEK COLONIES AND OTHER
SETTLEMENTS OVERSEAS
VOLUME ONE
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM NONAGESIMUM TERTIUM
GOCHA R. TSETSKHLADZE (ED.)
GREEK COLONISATION
AN ACCOUNT OF
GREEK COLONIES AND OTHER
SETTLEMENTS OVERSEAS
VOLUME ONE
GREEK COLONISATION
AN ACCOUNT OF
GREEK COLONIES AND OTHER
SETTLEMENTS OVERSEAS
VOLUME ONE
EDITED BY
GOCHA R. TSETSKHLADZE
LEIDEN •BOSTON
2006
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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ISSN 0169-8958
ISBN-13:978-90-04-12204-8
ISBN-10:90-04-12204-4
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CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................ ix
Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
List of Abbreviations .................................................................. xi
List of Illustrations ...................................................................... xv
Introduction
Revisiting Ancient Greek Colonisation ................................ xxiii
Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
Emporion. A Study of the Use and Meaning of the
Term in the Archaic and Classical Periods ........................ 1
Mogens Herman Hansen
Mycenaean Expansion ................................................................ 41
Jacques Vanschoonwinkel
Greek Migrations to Aegean Anatolia in the Early
Dark Age ................................................................................ 115
Jacques Vanschoonwinkel
The Phoenicians in the Mediterranean. Between Expansion
and Colonisation: A Non-Greek Model of Overseas
Settlement and Presence ........................................................ 143
Hans Georg Niemeyer
Greek Colonisation in Southern Italy: A Methodological
Essay ........................................................................................ 169
Emanuele Greco
The First Greeks in Italy .......................................................... 201
Bruno d’Agostino
viii contents
Early Greek Imports in Sardinia .............................................. 239
David Ridgway
Greeks in Sicily .......................................................................... 253
Adolfo J. Domínguez
Phocaean Colonisation .............................................................. 358
Jean-Paul Morel
Greeks in the Iberian Peninsula ................................................ 429
Adolfo J. Domínguez
Greeks in the East Mediterranean (South Anatolia,
Syria, Egypt) ............................................................................ 507
John Boardman
Al Mina and Sabuniye in the Orontes Delta: The Sites ...... 535
Hatice Pamir
Index ............................................................................................ 545
PREFACE
This volume, the first of two, marks an important phase in the com-
pletion of a large-scale project to provide in one work an overview
of Greek colonies and other Greek settlements overseas.
Few events in the history of ancient Greece, or indeed of the
whole ancient world, had such a large impact as Greek colonisation.
Greeks founded colonies and other settlements in new environments,
establishing themselves in the lands stretching from the Iberian
Peninsula in the West to North Africa in the South and the Black
Sea in the North East. In this colonial world Greek and local cul-
tures met, influenced, and enriched each other, and together with
the spread of the Roman empire and Christianity formed the foun-
dations of modern European culture.
Every few years new evidence and information encourages the
rewriting of the history of Greek colonisation. There is increasing
need for a handbook to bring together in one work the considered
opinions of historians and archaeologists from different countries. We
intend that these two volumes should display recent thoughts, ideas,
material and evidence. The authors are world experts on their par-
ticular regions or subjects. The aim is to present a general picture
of Greek colonisation and show its importance in the history of the
whole ancient world.
Both volumes of the handbook are dedicated to the late Prof. A.J.
Graham, an eminent scholar who did so much for the study of Greek
colonisation, and an excellent teacher, colleague and friend. I, like
many others, long benefited from his sound and often pithy advice.
His death on December 26th 2005, just as the corrected proofs of
this volume sat ready, came as a profound sadness to all his friends
and colleagues. It is a slight consolation that he had seen part of
the current volume in proof and was gratified to be its dedicatee.
This project has a long history. Its originator was Prof. Irad Malkin
and several of the papers published here were commissioned by him.
We are all grateful to him for his vision and for the enormous
amount of work he put in to the early stages. For various reasons
progress was fitful. In 1999, the then Classics Editor at Brill, Job
Lisman, with Prof. Malkin’s support, asked me to take over. The