Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Commerce with Italy, Sicily and France in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries B.C
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10964282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Blakeway (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1933 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Pages | 170-208 |
| Publication date | 1933-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annual of the British School at Athens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0068-2454 • E-ISSN: 2045-2403 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0068245400011886 |
| OpenAlex | W2147300101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 1 |
The date of the first contact of the Greeks with the Western Mediterranean is very difficult to determine from literary sources. It is as old as the Theogony and probably as old as the Odyssey ; but there is, as yet, no general agreement as to the date of either of these sources. Many historians still assume that it began, if not with the foundation of the Greek colonies in Sicily, at least with that of Cumae. These colonies, they maintain, were planted solely as a means of solving the problem of over-population in old Greece, in areas suitable for the production of corn, and without commercial intent. Whence came the necessary geographical knowledge and how the sites were chosen is seldom clearly stated, if it is stated at all. We are left with vague suggestions such as a preliminary expedition of exploration or ‘Traditional Survival’ of geographical knowledge based on Minoan, Mycenaean and Nostoi voyages, any explanation, in fact, that will save the historian from the natural assumption that the western colonies were planted in areas previously reached by Greek commercial enterprise
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Greeks · Mediterranean climate · Natural (archaeology · Population · Sociology · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Demography · History
The material culture of Archaic Greece
The Tyranny of Pisistratus
Euboea and the Islands
Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia
The Greeks in Egypt
The eastern Greeks
The western Greeks
Economic and social conditions in the Greek world
Crete
Central Greece and Thessaly
Cretan Laws and Society
The growth of the Athenian state
Servir el vino. Algunas observaciones sobre la adopción del oinochoe en el curso inferior del Ebro (s. VII-VI aC)
The Archaeology of Etruscan Society
The Cambridge Ancient History
Greek Pottery at Veii
The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage
Interações coloniais no Mediterrâneo global da Idade do Ferro
Mixed Marriages at the Frontiers of the Early Greek World
The Political Economy of Classical Athens
Iron Age Mediterranean Chronology
Ancient past, imperial present
Elusive Phoenicians
| Citations per year | 0.52 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2025 (44) |
| Highly cited | No |