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Colonization and subalternity in Classical Greece : experience of the nonelite population / Gabriel Zuchtriegel

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Zuchtriegel, Gabriel
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
xii, 272 : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Places of Darkness: Colonial Settlements and the History of Classical Greece -- 2.Huts and Houses: A Question of Ideology? -- 3.Tombs: Visibility and Invisibility in Colonial Societies -- 4.Fields: Colonial Definitions of Equality -- 5.Farms: The end of Equality? -- 6.Mountains: The Limits of Greekness and Citizenship -- 7.Workshops: Banausoi in the Colony -- 8.Classical Greece From a Colonial Perspective.
Summary
In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of classical Greece - the experience of non-elite colonial populations. Using post-colonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He also mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as archaeological and data from excavations and field surveys, much of it published here for the first time, that offer new insights into the lives and status of non-elite populations in Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel demonstrates that Greece's colonial experience has far-reaching implications beyond the study of archaeology and ancient history. As reflected in foundational texts such as Plato's 'Laws' and Aristotle's 'Politics', the ideology that sustained Greek colonialism is still felt in many Western societies.
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ISBN
9781108419031 (Hardback)
1108419038 (Hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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