Greek mythology and cult often served both as expressions of collective, historical identity and of attitudes to lands and territories. Functioning historically, myths provided justifications and legitimations of conquest, displacement, and settlement. Focusing on the Spartan Mediterranean--the world of Sparta and its colonies--this book examines the spectrum of the uses of myth. Extending beyond the Greek world, the book also raises the important question of how peoples relate to and justify their national and territorial identities.
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"...this book provides a densely detailed and richly annotated gazetteer of every myth concerning Sparta." Pericles Georges, American Historical Review
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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 'precedent-setting' and even aetiological myths, rendering new landscapes 'Greek'.
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national youthfulness, land genealogies, closing myth, charter myth, dolphin rider, opening myth, foundation oracle, constitutive myth, heroic cult, oracular prophecies, foundation story, historical founder, mother city, foundation stories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zeus Ammon, Apollo Karneios, Herakleia Trachinia, Return of the Herakleidai, Lake Tritonis, Messenian War, Port of Menelaos, Altars of the Philaini, North Africa, Schenk von Stauffenberg, Hiller von Gaertringen, Syrtis Major, Dark Ages, Syrtis Minor, Garden of the Hesperides, Hera Lakinia, Dorian Sparta, Herakleia Pontike, Spartan Dorieus, Dorian Aegean, Battle of Sagra, Lakonian Therai, Return of Menelaos, Apollo Archegetes, Black Sea Browse Sample Pages:
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national youthfulness, land genealogies, closing myth, charter myth, dolphin rider, opening myth, foundation oracle, constitutive myth, heroic cult, oracular prophecies, foundation story, historical founder, mother city, foundation stories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Zeus Ammon, Apollo Karneios, Herakleia Trachinia, Return of the Herakleidai, Lake Tritonis, Messenian War, Port of Menelaos, Altars of the Philaini, North Africa, Schenk von Stauffenberg, Hiller von Gaertringen, Syrtis Major, Dark Ages, Syrtis Minor, Garden of the Hesperides, Hera Lakinia, Dorian Sparta, Herakleia Pontike, Spartan Dorieus, Dorian Aegean, Battle of Sagra, Lakonian Therai, Return of Menelaos, Apollo Archegetes, Black Sea Browse Sample Pages:
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- La naissance de la cite grecque: Cultes, espace et societe, VIIIe-VIIe siecles (Textes a l'appui. Serie Histoire classique) (French Edition) by Francois de Polignac on page 66, page 83, and page 197
- The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus by Nino Luraghi on page 118, page 121, and page 123
- Singular Dedications: Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece (Studies in Classics) by Andrea Purvis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Plots Of Epiphany: Prison-escape In Acts Of The Apostles. (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Die Kunde Der Alteren Kirche) by John B. Weaver on page 25, and Back Matter
- The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: A Study in the Narrative of the 'Letter of Aristeas' by Sylvie Honigman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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