The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic GreeceTales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story-lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of the Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement. |
Contents
| 3 | |
Translating the City into Text | 13 |
Staging the City | 81 |
Interpreting the Metaphors | 157 |
Appendix | 165 |
Bibliography | 189 |
| 201 | |
| 205 | |
Other editions - View all
The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece Carol Dougherty Limited preview - 1993 |
Common terms and phrases
Aeschylus Aetna Aetnaeae Alexidamus ambiguous Apollo and Cyrene Arcesilaus archaic colonization Argos Artemis athletic Bacchylides Battus bride Carneia Carrhotus celebration chariot Chiron choral poetry city founder city's civic colo colonial discourse colonial expedition colonial founder colonial narrative colonial oracles colonial tale colonial tradition colonists consult context cult cultural Cyrene Cyrene's daughter Delphic Apollo Delphic oracle describes Diagoras Diod discussion epinician etymology exile foreign founding a colony Greek colonial Helius Herodotus Hieron honor imagery island king land language legends Libya marriage metaphor murder myth narrative pattern native nymph oikist Olympian overseas Palici Pausanias Pind Pindar poem poetic poetry pollution praise Proetus purification Pyth Pythian 9 Pythian games rape Rhodes riddle ritual role settlement sexual Sicel song story Strab suggests Syracuse Telesicrates tells tion Tiryns Tlepolemus Vernant victory violence Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν ἔνθα ἐς καὶ μὲν νιν πόλιν τε τὸ τὸν
Popular passages
Page ix - Rome GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies...
Page 3 - ... their land is spacious and void, and there are few and do but run over the grass, as do also the foxes and wild beasts. They are not industrious, neither have art, science, skill or faculty to use either the land or the commodities of it, but all spoils, rots, and is marred for want of manuring, gathering, ordering, etc.
Page 3 - ... do but run over the grass, as do also the foxes and wild beasts. They are not industrious, neither have [they] art, science, skill or faculty to use either the land or the commodities of it; but all spoils, rots, and is marred for want of manuring, gathering, ordering, etc.