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.
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 others 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.
1. Introduction: Approaches to the Western Greek world - 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. Domķnguez;
4. Myth and Identity - Mark
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 SeventhSixth 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 Bruttians - Ilaria Battiloro;
18. A bane to the
Iapygians. Greek-indigenous relations in south-east 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 Rafaella Ciuccarelli;
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 worlds of the western Mediterranean - 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.
Kathryn Lomas is Honorary Research Fellow in Ancient History at the University of Durham and the University of Newcastle. She is the author of The Rise of Rome (2017), Roman Italy: A Sourcebook (1996), and Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC-AD 200 (1993).
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