Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction générale et remerciements par Christian Buchet
- General introduction and acknowledgements
- Introduction (français)
- Introduction (English)
- La mer est le propre d'Homo sapiens
- PREHISTORICAL CASE STUDIES
- HISTORIAL CASE STUDIES: The Ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
- Mediterranean ship technology in Antiquity
- Greek colonization, connectivity, and the Middle Sea
- Les infrastructures portuaires antiques
- Alexandria and the sea in Hellenistic and Roman times
- The development of Roman maritime trade after the Second Punic war
- La mer et l'approvisionnement de la ville de Rome
- The Roman Empire and the seas
- Les techniques de pêche dans l'Antiquité
- The consumption of salted fish in the Roman Empire
- Taxing the sea
- Les détroits méditerranéens dans la construction de l'image de la mer Intérieure dans l'Antiquité
- Ancient sea routes in the Black Sea
- Maritime risk and ritual responses: sailing with the gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
- La mer, vecteur d'expansion du christianisme au Ier siècle
- Maritime military practices in the pre-Phoenician Levant
- La naissance des flottes en Egée
- The Athenian maritime empire of the fifth century BC
- Financial, human, material and economic resources required to build and operate navies in the classical Greek world
- Les expéditions athéniennes en Sicile, ou la difficulté pour une marine de garder sa supériorité
- Pourquoi Alexandre le Grand a-t-il choisi de licencier sa flotte à Milet?
- Hellenistic and Roman republican naval warfare technology
- La marine de guerre romaine de 284 à 363
- Rome and the Vandals
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Indian Ocean and the Far East
- Conclusion (français)
- Conclusion (English)
- Conclusion générale par Christian Buchet
- General conclusion
- Comprendre le rôle de la mer dans L'histoire pour éclairer notre avenir
- Understanding the role the sea has played in our past in order to shed light on our future!
Greek colonization, connectivity, and the Middle Sea
from HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction générale et remerciements par Christian Buchet
- General introduction and acknowledgements
- Introduction (français)
- Introduction (English)
- La mer est le propre d'Homo sapiens
- PREHISTORICAL CASE STUDIES
- HISTORIAL CASE STUDIES: The Ancient Near East and Pharaonic Egypt
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Mediterranean world
- Mediterranean ship technology in Antiquity
- Greek colonization, connectivity, and the Middle Sea
- Les infrastructures portuaires antiques
- Alexandria and the sea in Hellenistic and Roman times
- The development of Roman maritime trade after the Second Punic war
- La mer et l'approvisionnement de la ville de Rome
- The Roman Empire and the seas
- Les techniques de pêche dans l'Antiquité
- The consumption of salted fish in the Roman Empire
- Taxing the sea
- Les détroits méditerranéens dans la construction de l'image de la mer Intérieure dans l'Antiquité
- Ancient sea routes in the Black Sea
- Maritime risk and ritual responses: sailing with the gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
- La mer, vecteur d'expansion du christianisme au Ier siècle
- Maritime military practices in the pre-Phoenician Levant
- La naissance des flottes en Egée
- The Athenian maritime empire of the fifth century BC
- Financial, human, material and economic resources required to build and operate navies in the classical Greek world
- Les expéditions athéniennes en Sicile, ou la difficulté pour une marine de garder sa supériorité
- Pourquoi Alexandre le Grand a-t-il choisi de licencier sa flotte à Milet?
- Hellenistic and Roman republican naval warfare technology
- La marine de guerre romaine de 284 à 363
- Rome and the Vandals
- HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES: The Indian Ocean and the Far East
- Conclusion (français)
- Conclusion (English)
- Conclusion générale par Christian Buchet
- General conclusion
- Comprendre le rôle de la mer dans L'histoire pour éclairer notre avenir
- Understanding the role the sea has played in our past in order to shed light on our future!
Summary
ABSTRACT.This contribution analyses the ways in which the Mediterranean, or Middle Sea, enabled and encouraged increased connectivity between the various peoples inhabiting its surrounding coastline and numerous islands. It focuses particularly on the period c. 800–500 BC, when the Greeks and Phoenicians established multiple, overlapping cultural and social networks centered on new maritime settlements.
RÉSUMÉ.Cette contribution analyse de quelles manières la mer Méditerranée, ou mer du Milieu, a permis et encouragé une connectivité croissante entre les différents peuples vivant sur ses côtes et ses nombreuses îles. Elle s'intéresse en particulier à la période allant de c. 800 à 500 av. J.-C., pendant laquelle les Grecs et les Phéniciens établirent, en se chevauchant, de nombreux réseaux culturels et sociaux centrés autour des nouvelles colonies maritimes.
The sea is fundamental to our conception of ancient Greece: its thousands of miles of coastline and dozens of Aegean islands. Trade and settlement overseas are widely accepted as vital aspects of the development of what we conventionally call ‘Greek history’, certainly from the Bronze Age (c. 3200–1200 BC) onward, and especially during the Archaic period (c. 800–500 BC). The very geography of the southern Balkan peninsula and islands of the Aegean Sea are sometimes emphasized as defining factors in the development of the polities and societies of Greece, not only in the historical period but long before. Geographical determinism posits the mountain ranges and limited arable land found in the valleys between them, as well as the limits imposed by shorelines and the separation of islands, as determining factors in Greek history. Indeed, the geography and climate of Greece have been held to account for the distinctiveness of Greek polities and their resistance to unity until at least the Hellenistic period (323–30 BC). Although geographical determinism no longer holds sway, such ideas persist, and we are still changing our perspectives in accord with some simple but profound observations.
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- The Sea in History - The Ancient World , pp. 214 - 223Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017
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