The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece

by Carol Dougherty

Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195083997
• ISBN13: 9780195083996
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"