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Wandering Greeks - The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great (Paperback)
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Wandering Greeks - The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great (Paperback)
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Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient
Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the
so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland
argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was
essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of
their society, and that this wandering became a defining
characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but
essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens
of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating
the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their
homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or
simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the
mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and
sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part
from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life
elsewhere--or even to become homeless, living on the open road or
on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each
chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the
overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the
fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book
also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis."
The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a
culture of displaced persons.
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