Myth and Territory in the Spartan MediterraneanThis book discusses Greek attitudes to settlement and territory as articulated through myths and cults. It covers the spectrum from explicit charter myths legitimating conquest, displacement, and settlement, to the 'precedent-setting' and even aetiological myths, rendering new landscapes 'Greek'. |
Contents
The colony of the Dorians and the Return of the Herakleidai | 15 |
The Lakonian land genealogies | 19 |
the Return of Tyndareos | 22 |
The Homeric lords of the land | 26 |
the Return of the Herakleidai | 33 |
History the Dorian invasion and the Return of the Herakleidai | 43 |
The Homeric king of Sparta Menelaos in a Spartan Mediterranean | 46 |
Menelaos in Sparta | 47 |
uses and abuses | 139 |
Foundation and territory the cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon | 143 |
the Herakleid foundation of Sparta | 149 |
The Dorian invasion and the vocabulary of cult | 152 |
Nomima and the Karneia | 157 |
the precinct of Zeus Arnmon | 158 |
Zeus Ammon and the Greeks | 159 |
The choicest garden of Zeus | 161 |
Menelaos in Libya | 48 |
Menelaos in the west | 57 |
the cult of the Antenoridai | 64 |
Spartan colonization in the Aegean and the Peloponnese | 67 |
The Aegean colonies | 73 |
Shortdistance colonization in the Peloponnese | 83 |
Theras and Kadmos the Phoenician | 89 |
Placenames and attitudes | 95 |
Myth and genealogy | 98 |
Theras archagetas | 106 |
Amyklai and Spartan colonization | 111 |
basileia at Thera | 113 |
Taras native hostility territorial possession and a newancient past | 115 |
the challenge of territorial possession | 127 |
historical versus mythical founders | 133 |
Zeus and the Greek colonization of Libya | 163 |
Cult sites and the definition of territory | 164 |
Zeus Ammon and Carthage | 167 |
Myth and colonial territory Libya | 169 |
The charter myth of the clod of earth | 174 |
Antaios | 181 |
the Altars of the Philaini | 187 |
Promises unfulfilled Dorieus between North Africa and Sicily | 192 |
Dorieus and the land of Eryx | 203 |
Myth and decolonization Spartas colony at Herakleia Trachinia | 219 |
The colonizers and the colonized | 221 |
The myth of Herakles and attitudes to the local people | 227 |
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Aegean Aigeidai Amyklai Antaios Antenoridai Antiochos Apollo Karneios apparently Archaic Argos Asheri Athenian Athens Aziris Battos Cartledge 1979 Chamoux charter myth claim clod of earth colonists context cult Cyrenaian Cyrenaica Cyrene Cyrene's Delphi descendants Diod Dorian Dorian invasion Dorieus Dunbabin 1948a Elymian emphasized Ephoros eponymous Eryx Euhesperides Euphemos FGrHist FGrHist 555 F FGrHist 70 fifth century foundation story founded founder genealogies Giangiulio Graham Greek colonies Herakleia Trachinia Herakleidai Herakles hero Herodotos historical Homeric Iapygians implied Irasa Kadmos king Kinyps Knidos Kroton Lake Tritonis Lakedaimon Lakedaimonian Lakonian land Libya Lyktos Malkin Melos Menelaos Messenian Minyans mother city mythological Orestes origins Paus Pausanias Peloponnese perhaps Phalanthos Phoenician Pind Pindar Plut political Port of Menelaos probably Prokles prophecy Pyth role Schol seems settle settlement Sicily significant Siwa sources Spartan Spartan colonization Strabo Taras Tarentine Taucheira territory Thera Thuc Thucydides Trachis Tyrtaios western Sicily Wuilleumier 1968 Zeus Ammon
Popular passages
Page 236 - L'epos greco in occidente. Atti del diciannovesimo convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia, Taranto, 7-11 ottobre 1979, Tarente, 1980 [1989] [cité ACT, 19, 1979], 9-28; G.
Page 5 - ... this word again in the literal native mythological sense. The result is that there come into existence a special class of mythological stories which justify and account for the anomalous state of affairs. The strength of the various mythological and legal principles is manifested in that the myths of justification still contain the antagonistic and logically irreconcilable facts and points of view, and only try to cover them by facile reconciliatory incident, obviously manufactured ad hoc.
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Page 4 - ... its social function; on the other hand, once we begin to study the social function of myth, and so to reconstruct its full meaning, we are gradually led to build up the full theory of native social organization. One of the most interesting phenomena connected with traditional precedent and charter is the adjustment of myth and mythological principle to cases in which the very foundation of such mythology is flagrantly violated.
Page 5 - This violation always takes place when the local claims of an autochthonous clan, ie, a clan which has emerged on the spot, are overridden by an immigrant clan. Then a conflict of principles is created, for obviously the principle that land and authority belong to those who are literally born out of it does not leave room for any newcomers. On the other hand, members of a subclan...