The Poetics of Colonization
From City to Text in Archaic Greece
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 1993
220 pages
978-0-19-535923-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story-lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of the Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Postgraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Research and professional
Illustrations
4 halftones
File size
13,71 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-19-535923-7 (9780195359237)
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Book
01/1994
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: The Poetics of Colonization
- Part I. Narratives and Metaphors: Translating the City into Text
- 1. Laying the Foundations: Narrative and Cult
- 2. Murderous Founders
- 3. Impossible Sites
- 4. The Lay of the Land
- Part II. Texts in Context: Staging the City
- 5. Hieron and Aetna
- 6. Pythian 5: Colonial Founders and Athletic Victors
- 7. Olympian 7 and Bacchylides Ode 11: Murder, Victory, and Colonization
- 8. Pythian 9: Appropriating the Native
- Conclusion: Interpreting the Metaphors
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- A
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- C
- D
- H
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- P
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- Subject Index
- A
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- D
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- F
- G
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- I
- K
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- N
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