Mediterranean Paradigms And Classical Antiquity

by Malkin,Irad

• ISBN13: 9780415356350
• ISBN10: 0415356350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In a world that is undergoing processes of globalization, regions rather than national units are becoming important and relevant frames of reference. In recent years the regional concept of the "Mediterranean" has emerged both as a program for cultural networking as well as a conceptual tool for interpreting society and history. In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquity (Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journalMediterranean Historical Review.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Irad Malkin
The Boundless Sea of Unlikeness? On Defining the Mediterranean	9	(21)
Nicholas Purcell
Not ours: some difficulties with appropriation	13	(4)
What kind of edges? towards Mediterranean dEsenclavement	17	(13)
Mediterraneanization	30	(26)
Ian Morris
Why now?	33	(8)
What does it mean?	41	(9)
Conclusions	50	(6)
Networks and the Emergence of Greek Identity	56	(19)
Irad Malkin
Cognitive maps	60	(1)
Delphi	61	(3)
Human and mythical heroes and the Hellenic networks	64	(2)
Founding the mother city?	66	(5)
Conclusion	71	(4)
Cultures, Landscapes, and Identities in the Mediterranean World	75	(18)
Lin Foxhall
The exploitation of land	76	(1)
Availability of land in the archaic Greek world	77	(2)
The social and political context of agrarian landscapes	79	(1)
Technology, labour, and land	79	(4)
Interpreting agrarian landscapes	83	(3)
Land divisions and the exploitation of the countryside in the archaic Greek world	86	(2)
Conclusion	88	(5)
A Peculiar Island: Maghrib and Mediterranean	93	(33)
Brent D. Shaw
Pre/history	100	(6)
One faith	106	(10)
Envoi	116	(10)
A Sea of Faith?	126	(18)
Greg Woolf
Mediterraneanism as strategy	126	(3)
Choosing paradigms for ancient religious history	129	(4)
Characteristically Mediterranean forms of cult?	133	(4)
Ancient religions in space	137	(3)
Conclusion	140	(4)
Chapter Abstracts	144	(2)
Index	146