A Small Greek World

by Irad Malkin

Book Overview

Greek civilization and identity crystallized not when Greeks were close together but when they came to be far apart. It emerged during the Archaic period when Greeks founded coastal city states and trading stations in ever-widening horizons from the Ukraine to Spain. No center directed their diffusion: mother cities were numerous and the new settlements ("colonies") would often engender more settlements. The "Greek center" was at sea; it was formed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019973481X
• ISBN13: 9780199734818
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"