The poetics of colonization : from city to text in archaic Greece

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Label

The poetics of colonization : from city to text in archaic Greece

Title remainder

from city to text in archaic Greece

Statement of responsibility

Carol Dougherty

Creator

• Dougherty, Carol

Subject

• City and town life in literature
• Colonies in literature
• Greece -- Colonies | Historiography
• Greek literature -- History and criticism
• Cities and towns -- Greece -- Historiography
• Literature and history -- Greece
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Imperialism in literature

Language

eng

Summary

Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continued to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled. 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PA3009

LC item number

.D68 1993

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography