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

by Carol Dougherty

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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"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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