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A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World

Franco De Angelis (Edited by), De Angelis (Author)

9781119675228, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 28 August 2025

576 pages
24.6 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm, 0.953 kg

A COMPANION TO GREEKS ACROSS THE ANCIENT WORLD

An innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCE

A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World explores the mobility and migration of Greeks who left their homelands in the ten centuries between the Early Iron Age and the Hellenistic period. While most academic literature centers on the Greeks of the Aegean basin area, this unique volume provides a systematic examination of the history of the other half of the ancient Greek world. Contributions from leading scholars and historians discuss where migrants settled, their new communities, and their connections and interactions with both Aegean Greeks and non-Greeks.

Divided into three parts, the book first covers ancient and modern approaches and the study of the ancient Greeks outside their homelands, including various intellectual, national, and linguistic traditions. Regional case studies form the core of the text, taking a microhistory approach to examine Greeks in the Near Eastern Empires, Greek-Celtic interactions in Central Europe, Greek-established states in Central Asia, and many others throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. The closing section of the text discusses wider themes such as the relations between the Greek homeland and the edges of Greek civilization. Reflecting contemporary research and fresh perspectives on ancient Greek culture contact, this volume:

  • Discusses the development and intersection of mobility, migration, and diaspora studies
  • Examines the various forms of ancient Greek mobility and their outcomes
  • Highlights contributions to cultural development in the Greek and non-Greek world
  • Examines wider themes and the various forms of ancient Greek mobility and their outcomes
  • Includes an overview of ancient terminology and concepts, modern translations, numerous maps, and full references

A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World is a valuable resource for students, instructors, and researchers of Classical antiquity, as well as non-specialists with interest in ancient Greek mobilities, migrations, and diasporas.

Maps xi

Illustrations and Tables xiii

Abbreviations xv

Notes on Contributors xvii

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction: Greeks across the Ancient World 1
Franco De Angelis

Part I Approaches, Ancient and Modern 11

1 Mobility in the Ancient Greek World: Diversity of Causes, Variety of Vocabularies 13
Michela Costanzi

2 English‐Speaking Traditions and the Study of the Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands 37
Lela M. Urquhart

3 French‐Speaking Traditions and the Study of Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands 53
Michel Gras Copyrighted Material

4 German‐speaking Traditions (including the Habsburg Empire) and the Study of the Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands 69
Martin Mauersberg

5 Italian‐Speaking Traditions and the Study of the Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands 85
Franco De Angelis

6 Tsarist Russian, Soviet, and Post‐Soviet Traditions and the Study of Ancient Greeks outside their Homelands 101
Sergey Saprykin

7 Models of Culture Contact and Cultural Change: Moving Beyond National and Linguistic Traditions 119
Christoph Ulf

Part II Regional Case Studies 137

8 Phoenicians and Greeks as Comparable Contemporary Migrant Groups 139
Brien K. Garnand

9 Neo‐Assyrian through Persian Empires 173
Robert Rollinger

10 Greeks in Iron Age Central Europe: Patterns of Interaction and Change 199
Peter S. Wells

11 Anatolia 221
Andrew Brown

12 Greeks on the Island of Cyprus: “At home” on the Frontiers 247
Maria Iacovou

13 Southern Italy 273
Gianfranco Adornato

14 Sicily 295
Justin St. P. Walsh

15 The Adriatic Sea and Region 317
Maria Cecilia D’Ercole

16 Cyrenaica 339
Gerald P. Schaus

17 Egypt 363
Joseph G. Manning

18 The Phocaeans in the Far Western Mediterranean 385
Joan Sanmartí

19 The Northern Aegean 409
Despoina Tsiafaki

20 The Black Sea 431
Pia Guldager Bilde † , Søren Handberg, and Jane Hjarl Petersen

21 The Greeks in the East in the Hellenistic Period 459
Gerassimos G. Aperghis

Part III Themes 481

22 Greeks and Cultural Development in the Pre‐Roman Mediterranean 483
Tamar Hodos

23 Relations with Homelands: Apoikia and Metropol(e)is 499
Frank Bernstein

24 The Making of Greece: Contributions from the Edges 513
Raimund J. Schulz

Index 529

 

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