Mediterranean Passages

by Cooke, Miriam; Goknar, Erdag; Parker, Grant

• ISBN13: 9780807858714
• ISBN10: 0807858714
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-20
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

The Mediterranean is the meeting point of three continents--Asia, Africa, and Europe--as well as three major monotheistic religions--Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Focusing on global networks and cultural exchanges,Mediterranean Passagescollects writings from across three centuries to provide a pan-Mediterranean perspective of the cultural, political, and economic relations that crisscross the region, linking people and places from antiquity to the present.From Homer's hymn to Apollo to the writing of French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida, from the contemporary accounts of North African Berber conqueror Tariq ibn al-Yazid to the journalism of American I. F. Stone, this chronologically organized anthology juxtaposes the voices and experiences of travelers, exiles, and colonizers who have lived in or visited the Mediterranean region since before 1200 B.C.E. Literary and historical texts and a gallery of maps, architecture, photographs, and paintings provide glimpses of travel and migration, trade routes, military conquest, and cultural exchange. Together, these selections highlight the networks of connections, intersections, and interruptions that animate a vital and contested geographical space.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Ancient Diasporas

The Sea Peoples Letters from Ugarit and Inscriptions of Ramses III

Cedars for Egypt Wenamun Phoenicians in the West Nora

Stone and Marseilles Inscription Odysseus's Wanderings Homer

Travels of a Farmer Hesiod Exile and Return Psalm 137 and Ezra Lamentation over

Tyre Ezekiel Delos at the Crossroads Homeric Hymn to Apollo Study

Tours Diogenes Laertius and Herodotus Travels in a Fish Jonah

Beyond the Pillars of Hercules Hanno the Carthaginian Persians versus

Greeks Aeschylus King Minos and Thalassocracy Thucydides Grain

Trade Dispute attributed to Demosthenes Foundation

Decree of Cyrene Where to Found a Polis Aristotle Escorting a Princess Artemidorus

Mare Nostrum: Our Sea

A Roman Mediterranean Polybius Sale of Callirhoe

Chariton Cleopatra's Death Horace Dido and Aeneas Virgil

Translating the Law Philo Shipwreck at Malta

Acts of the Apostles Alexander's

Civilizing Mission Plutarch Touring Egypt

Julia Balbilla Carthaginian Ascendancy

Appian Olympic Origins Pausanias Women in the Holy Land Eusebius of Caesarea and Egeria

Painful Departures Augustine Law and Holy Wisdom Justinian and Procopius T-O Map Isidore of Seville

Barzakh:

The Waters Between Ornament of the World Ibn Abd al-Hakam

Charlemagne and Harun Einhard and the Monk of St. Gall Arabic

Medicine in Europe Constantine the African Refugee Dispatch

Karaite Jews from Ascalon Aristotle in Andalus Maimonides and Averroes

Jewish and Muslim Networks Benjamin of Tudela and Ibn Jubayr

Perplexed among Crusaders Usamah ibn Munqidh Richard and Saladin Ambroise

Purgatory Dante Alighieri

The Reunited Lovers Giovanni Boccaccio Between

East and West Ibn Battuta Two Romes Manuel Chrysoloras

A Muslim Caesar Tursun Beg

Grand Tours

The Westerly Route to the East Christopher Columbus

An Ottoman Prince on Rhodes

Slave Leo Africanus New Argonauts Ludovico Ariosto

A Sultanate of Women Catherine de Medici Marine Merchant Shakespeare

The Captive's Tale Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

An Ottoman Tourist Evliya  elebi Efendi

The Conversion of Sabbatai Sevi Samuel Brett, Sir Paul Rycaut, and Richard Kidder

A New World Lady Wortley Montagu

From Rome to Naples William Beckford

From Naples to Palermo Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May the Mamluks be Cursed Napoleon Bonaparte

Base Ignorance and Disbelief Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti

Epic Encounters

Where Sappho Loved Lord Byron

The Bejeweled Fly Whisk Pierre Deval

From Palma to Malta Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine

Voyage to Algeria Alexis de Tocqueville Treasures of Troy Heinrich

Schliemann Exquisite Whores Guy de Maupassant Pray for a Long Journey

Constantine Cavafy The Corrupting Sea Thomas Mann

Remapping the Mediterranean

The King-Crane Commission Remember the Harbor Ernest Hemingway

Women Unveil Huda Shaarawi City and Psyche Sigmund

Freud Reconciling Tradition and Modernity Yahya Haqqi

Ship of Misery I. F. Stone Odysseus's Scar Erich Auerbach

A Global Pond Mediterraneanizing Identity Americo

Castro Oldnewland David-Ben Gurion Daughters of Aphrodite Lawrence Durrell

The Sixth Continent Halikarnas Balkis Mirror of the Self Orhan Pamuk

Thousands of Watchful Eyes Assia Djebar Last Evening in this Land Mahmud

Darwish Guarding the Coasts Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Island Melancholy Margarita

Karapanou Blind Dreams Fadila al-Faruq

The Language of the Other Jacques Derrida Partners

Adrift Fawzi Mellah Mediterranean Thinking Franco Cassano

Further Readings

Index

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