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Myth and territory in the Spartan Mediterranean /

Main Author: Malkin, Irad.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York, N.Y., U.S. : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Cities and towns, Ancient > Mediterranean Region.
Mythology, Greek.
Greeks > Colonization > Mediterranean Region.
History, Ancient.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Colonies.
Greeks > Colonization.
Sparta (Extinct city) > Colonies.
Greece > Sparta (Extinct city)
MEDITERRANEAN REGION.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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