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Irad Malkin
Establishes Sparta as a Mediterranean entity, examining how mythology justified conquest and colonization across the Spartan Mediterranean in the archaic and Classical periods. This revised edition, complete with substantial new…
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Irad Malkin, Josine Blok
For the first time, this volume by two leading historians offers a comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central institution of ancient Greek society. Drawing lots expressed an egalitarian…
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Originally presented as the author’s thesis (Ph. D.– University of Pennsylvania)
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In this book Mediterranean paradigms are applied to the world of Classical Antiquity, from ancient Greece to the Roman Empire, offering original perspectives with wide-ranging implications to how we view…
Should we admire the Greeks for having created their civilization in spite of, or because of, the enormous distances separating their independent communities? The book claims it was a network-dynamics…
This book claims it was a network-dynamics of Small World formation that rapidly foreshortened Mediterranean spaces, thus allowing the flows of civilizational content and self-aware notions of collective identity to…
This study of early Greek exploration makes a contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited after…
Irad Malkin (Tel-Aviv University)
This 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…
This book discusses Greek attitudes to settlement and territory as articulated through myths and cults, emphasising less on the poetic, timeless qualities, than on their historical function in the archaic…
La civilisation grecque a emerge a partir du moment ou les Grecs se separaient les uns des autres et s'installaient loin de la Grece continentale, jusque sur les rivages de…
Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv University Israel)
Ce livre traite de l'attitude des Grecs envers les notions d'implantation et de territoire telles qu'on les trouve exprimees dans les mythes et les cultes. Il y est question moins…
Robert L. Hohlfelder,Irad Malkin
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book throws light on aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The book…
The papers in this volume discuss the unique, and so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and…
