La question des implantations grecques et des contacts précoloniaux en Italie du Sud

This intervention dwells on the analysis of the structures of contact and exchange in order to restate afresh in an original way the question of Greek colonization, in connection with a study on the nature of the first Greek settlements in southern Italy and on the organization of the territories by the natives.It is within this context that the pithecusan experiment can be interpreted and that the few examples among others here mentioned such as the settlement of Francavilla Marittima or of the Incoronata can be susceptible of explanation.If the two terms conventionally used, pre- and proto-colonization are not the most adequate – by reason of their teleological perspective- one must insist on the historical importance of that definite moment in the Greek presence in the West. For all the lacunae and the manifold interpretations and discussions, it is in an historical perspective that we try, within the framework of this contribution, to define the chronology, to evaluate the importance of the first contacts and beyond that, to understand, at least partially, the historic impact of a phenomenon which ever since its genesis, appears to be particularly complex and varied.The distinction between a pre-colonial phase and a colonial phase remains pertinent. As a matter of fact, the latter situation entails a particular configuration. For there is no longer any doubt that the foundation of agrarian settlements brings about a radical rift with the pre-colonial situation : the balance preceding the colonization, linked as it was to existing networks of exchange and to a possible cohabitation between Greeks and natives, is broken by the foundation of new apoikiai. The apoikia then creates a new organization of the territory which does not take into consideration a common management of the territories : the colonial foundations properly speaking mobilize other groups of Greeks whose primary concern is henceforward the earth

Humanities · Political science · African history and culture analysis · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy

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