Wandering Greeks : : The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great / / Robert Garland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Garland, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Preface -- 1. Prolegomena -- 2. The Wanderer -- 3. The Settler -- 4. The Portable Polis -- 5. The Deportee -- 6. The Evacuee -- 7. The Asylum-Seeker -- 8. The Fugitive -- 9. The Economic Migrant -- 10. The Itinerant -- 11. Repatriation -- Conclusions -- Envoi -- Further Reading -- Appendix A. The Terminology of Diaspora -- Appendix B. Catalogue of Athenian Cleruchies and Colonies -- Appendix C. Catalogue of Deportees -- Appendix D. Catalogue of Exiles -- Appendix E. Catalogue of the Enslaved -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Place Names -- Index of Sources -- General Index