Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

by: Malkin, I.

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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.

Contents:
The 'Colony of the Dorians' and the return of the Herakleidai
The Homeric King of Sparta: Menelaos in a Spartan Mediterranean
Spartan colonization in the Aegean and the Peloponnese
Taras: native hostility, territorial possession, and a new-ancient past
Foundation and territory: the cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon
Myth and colonial territory: Libya
Promises unfulfilled: Dorieus between North Africa and Sicily
Myth and decolonization: Sparta's colony at Herakleia Trachinia

Subjects:
Cities and towns, Ancient
Cities and towns, Ancient Mediterranean Region
Colonies
Grecs Colonisation Méditerranée (région)
Greece Sparta (Extinct city)
Greeks Colonization
Greeks Colonization Mediterranean Region
HISTORY Ancient
Kolonisation
Mediterranean Region
Mythen
Mythes politiques Grèce Sparte (ville ancienne)
Mythologie grecque
Mythology, Greek
Mythos
Nederzettingen
Sparta
Sparta (Extinct city) Colonies
Sparte (Ville ancienne) Colonies
Sparte (ville ancienne) Colonies
Villes antiques Méditerranée (région)

Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean

by: Malkin, I.

• ISBN-13: 9780521411837 / 978-0-521-41183-7
• ISBN-03: 0521411831 / 0-521-41183-1
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 1994

Price: 98,00 EURO

1 copy in stock