عنوان

Wandering Greeks :

Terms of Availability and/or Price

(hardback)

Terms of Availability and/or Price

(hardback)

(Number (ISBN

0691161054

(Number (ISBN

9780691161051

Number

dltt

Title Proper

Wandering Greeks :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the ancient Greek diaspora from the age of Homer to the death of Alexander the Great /

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert Garland

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxi, 319 pages ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Prolegomena -- The wanderer -- The settler -- The portable Polis -- The deportee -- The evacuee -- The asylum-seeker -- The fugitive -- The economic migrant -- The itinerant -- Repatriation

0

Text of Note

"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 Greeks 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. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere--or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons"--

Greeks-- Migrations-- History-- To 1500

Greece, Civilization, To 146 B.C

Greece, Social conditions, To 146 B.C

0

0

Class number

Book number

Garland, Robert,1947-

Date of Transaction

20140821113151.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y