(H/B) WANDERING GREEKS

Παρουσίαση

Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Creeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

List of illustrations
List of maps
Preface
Prolegomena
The wanderer
The settler
The portable polis
The deportee
The evacuee
The asylum - seeker
The fugitive
The economic migrant
The itinerant
Repatriation
Conclusions
Envoi
Further reading
The terminology of diaspora
Catalogue of Athenian cleruchies and colonies
Catalogue of deportees
Catalogue of exiles
Catalogue of the enslaved
Chronology
Bibliography
Index of personal names
Index of place names
Index of sources
General index