The World of the Western Greeks

by: Lomas, K.

The World of the Western Greeks
Edited By Kathryn Lomas

Description

This volume presents studies by international experts on aspects of the society, economy, religion, culture, and history of the Greek settlements of the ancient western Mediterranean, one of the most innovative areas of the ancient Greek world.

Across 43 chapters, this book synthesizes material evidence, integrates this with ancient sources, and introduces key methodological debates on the nature and study of Greek settlement in the west. It provides an overview of the history of the region, from earliest contact with the Greek world to the Roman period, and examines the relationships between Greek and non-Greek populations of the western Mediterranean and how they shaped each other?s histories and cultures. The volume also explores aspects of the economy, society and culture of the region, illustrating the contribution of the western Greeks to shaping wider Greek culture and identity. By adopting a wide-ranging approach, integrating material evidence and ancient sources, it illuminates the diversity and innovative nature of the western Greek world from its earliest development to the aftermath of the Roman conquest.

The World of the Western Greeks is an essential reference work for students and scholars of the Greek western Mediterranean and its history, culture, and society.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations

List of contributors

Maps

A note on names

Abbreviations

Preface

1. Introduction: approaching the western Greeks

Kathryn Lomas

Concepts and models

2. Concepts and models of settlement in the western Mediterranean

Robin Osborne

3. Cultural networks and identities in the western Mediterranean

Adolfo J. Domínguez

4. Myth and identity

Mark R. Thatcher

5. Framing Greek presence in the west: a sociology of ?Greek colonisation?

Lieve Donnellan

6. Postcolonial criticism and Magna Graecia

Gabriel Zuchtriegel

Historical and archaeological development

7. Explorers, traders, pirates and refugees: the Aegean presence in southern Italy and Sicily before Greek colonisation

Davide Tanasi

8. The earliest Greek settlements in Italy and Sicily: sources and evidence

Valentino Nizzo

9. From settlement to polis: the establishment of the Greek city in the seventh–sixth centuries BC

Giulia Saltini Semerari

10. Archaic and classical Magna Graecia: lines of historical development

Maurizio Giangiulio

11. Sicily in the sixth and fifth centuries

Gillian Shepherd

12. Sicily from Dionysius I to the Roman sack of Syracuse

Richard Evans

13. The Roman conquest: Magna Graecia from Pyrrhus to Hannibal

Giovanna De Sensi Sestito

14. From Greek to Roman: Magna Graecia from the end of the Punic wars to the early empire

Kathryn Lomas

15. Roman Sicily

Laura Pfuntner

Greeks and others: Greeks and non-Greeks in the western Mediterranean

16. Greeks and others in Campania

Carmine Pellegrino

17. Greeks, Lucanians, and Brettians

Ilaria Battiloro

18. “A bane to the Iapygians”: Greek-indigenous relations in southeast Italy

Edward Herring

19. Sicans and Greeks in central western Sicily in the archaic age

Francesca Spatafora

20. Greeks and Phoenicians in Sicily and Magna Graecia

Gabriella Sciortino

21. The western Greek World and central Italy: contacts with Etruria and Rome

Maria Raffaella Ciuccarrelli

22. Greeks, Greek settlements and relations with non-Greeks in the Far Occident (France and Spain) (seventh-first centuries BC)

Michel Bats (with contributions by Rosa Plana-Mallart and Marta Santos-Retolaza)

Agriculture, trade, craft production and material culture

23. Landscape, rural settlement and agrarian production in archaic Magna Graecia and Sicily: a landscape archaeological view

Peter Attema

24. Agriculture and agrarian changes in Magna Graecia in the Roman period

Alastair M. Small

25. The Straits of Otranto: a network node in Mediterranean trade from the archaic to late Hellenistic periods

Carlo De Mitri

26. Building the city: urban development in the archaic and classical periods

Emanuele Greco

27. Public architecture in Sicily and Magna Grecia

Spencer Pope

28. Domestic architecture: rural housing in Magna Graecia and Sicily between the fourth and the first centuries BC

Valentina Trotta

29. Greek sculpture in Sicily and South Italy from the Geometric to the Classical period

Clemente Marconi

30. Apulian and Lucanian red-figure pottery: production, use and reception

T.H. Carpenter

31. Textile production in Magna Graecia

Margarita Gleba and Francesco Meo

32. Coins and the transfer of cultures in Magna Graecia and Sicily

Keith Rutter

Culture and society in the Greek west

33. Ruling the city: civic constitutions, law codes and their development

Loredana Cappelletti

34. Armies, mercenaries, and the nature of war

Joshua R. Hall

35. Women in the colonial and indigenous world

Francesca Fulminante and Tamar Hodos

36. Shaping (and rethinking) the sacred in Magna Graecia: sanctuaries, votives and ritual practices in the western colonies

Valeria Parisi

37. Sport, games and athletic festivals in Magna Graecia and Sicily

Diva di Nanni

38. Literacy and the development of writing in the western Mediterranean

Stefania De Vido

39. Medicine in Magna Graecia

Luigi Vecchio

40. Science and engineering

Aimee Schofield

41. The development of philosophy in Magna Graecia

Benjamin Harriman

42. Poetry and performance in the Greek west

Federico Favi and Peter Wilson

43. Feasting, drinking, and food in the culture of Magna Graecia

Adam Rabinowitz

Index

The World of the Western Greeks

by: Lomas, K.

• ISBN-13: 9781138347854 / 978-1-138-34785-4
• Routledge, London, 2025