Greeks Overseas 4E Pa

by Boardman,John

• ISBN13: 9780500281093
• ISBN10: 0500281092
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-17
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

The spread of Greek civilization through Europe and into Africa and the Near East began long before the full flowering of Classical Greek culture. The Greeks Overseas vividly demonstrates the value of archaeology in reconstructing one of the most important formative periods of European history. Out of the Dark Ages of reduced population and comparative penury, the Greeks set their sails north, south, east, and west to plant trading posts and colonies, to reap whatever harvest of materials and expertise the barbarians could offer, and to disseminate the benefits of their own rapidly developing and brilliant civilization. Reviewing the first edition in 1965, The Times Literary Supplement described it as "a masterly summary of a subject that is constantly in need of reappraisal." This fourth edition adds a chapter summarizing new finds and exploring the new attitudes that have affected the study of the subject in the past forty years.

Author Biography

John Boardman is Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
The Nature of the Evidence	p. 10
Our Sources	p. 10
Archaeological Evidence	p. 12
Literary Evidence	p. 19
The Background	p. 23
The Eastern Adventure	p. 35
North Syria and the Empires beyond	p. 38
Eastern Influence in Greece	p. 54
Phrygia and Lydia	p. 84
The Persians	p. 102
The Greeks in Egypt	p. 111
Naucratis	p. 118
Other Greeks in Egypt	p. 133
The Persians in Egypt	p. 141
Egyptian Objects and Influence in Greece	p. 141
Greeks in Libya and Cyrenaica	p. 153
Italy, Sicily, and the West	p. 161
The Colonists	p. 162
Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily	p. 165
Greeks and Natives in Sicily and Italy	p. 189
Western Greek Colonial Art	p. 192
Coinage	p. 198
Greeks and Etruscans	p. 198
Greeks and Phoenicians	p. 210
Greeks in France and North Spain	p. 216
The North and the Black Sea	p. 225
Greeks in the Adriatic	p. 225
Greeks on the Macedonian and Thracian Coast	p. 229
Illyrians, Macedonians, and Thracians	p. 232
The Black Sea and its Approaches	p. 238
The Greek Cities	p. 245
Greeks and Scythians	p. 256
Athenians, Persians and Hellespont	p. 264
Epilogue	p. 267
Notes	p. 283
Acknowledgements	p. 300
Index	p. 300
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