Ancient past, imperial present: the British Empire in T.J. Dunbabin's <i>The western Greeks</i>

Angelis, Franco De

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00086956

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“…O estudo específico dos movimentos coloniais grego e fenício mantiveram trajetórias distintas nas pesquisas (grego: DE ANGELIS, 1998;ver referências em HODOS, 2006, p. 10-12;fenício: GRAS et al, 1989;PASTOR BORGOÑON, 1988MOSCATI, 1993;VELLA, 1996;LANCEL, 1995, p. 438-446, em particular para Cartago), expressadas numa sensação de competição pela primazia na inovação colonial entre as duas disciplinas. Sintomas dessa rivalidade são as questões referentes às datas das primeiras colônias, como se uma espécie de supremacia mediterrânica dependesse disso.…”

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Interações coloniais no Mediterrâneo global da Idade do Ferro

Hodos

2019

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A aplicação da teoria da globalização em contextos coloniais enfatizou, nos últimos anos, articulações entre colonizados e colonizadores. Para o Mediterrâneo na Idade do Ferro, o foco tem sido as expressões de identidades locais (colonizadas) e as variabilidades regionais de gregos e fenícios do além-mar. Qualquer atenção às interações que gregos e fenícios tiveram entre si durante esse tempo tem sido usada apenas para contrapor o enquadramento dos argumentos. O presente estudo examina o pano de fundo dessa circunstância tratando especificamente das interações entre tais culturas globais em escala mediterrânica durante o período de suas fundações ultramarinas. Vistos de um enquadramento global, os conjuntos de práticas em comum e de corpos de saberes compartilhados revelam uma profunda complexidade de contato intercultural durante a Idade do Ferro, lembrando-nos que as culturas nunca devem ser consideradas isoladamente.

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Interações coloniais no Mediterrâneo global da Idade do Ferro

Hodos

2019

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“…In recent years, the problem of Dunbabin's faulty and distorting analogy of comparing the Western Greeks to the British Empire of the 1930s has received full discussion. 40 This analogy must also have played a part in his wheat-only interpretation for Sicily, causing Dunbabin to misinterpret and take lightly certain ancient evidence. Dunbabin's interpretative framework constrained his range of conclusions, and, more to the point, he compared the success of the Western Greeks in agriculture to Canada's wheat role during the British Empire.…”

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Going Against the Grain in Sicilian Greek Economics

Angelis

2006

Greece & Rome

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On his recent retirement from the chair of classical archaeology in Cambridge University, Anthony Snodgrass reflected on the state of the subject, wondering whether a paradigm shift has occurred. Snodgrass assesses various matters, including, for our purposes, how archaeological approaches to ancient literary sources have changed. His comments deserve quotation in full:…Classical archaeology is often stigmatized, by its many critics, as being ‘text-driven’ … [in] that the subject takes its orientation from, and adapts its whole narrative to, the lead given by the literary sources. Thus the archaeology of Roman Britain has been built around Tacitus' narrative of conquest; the study of Greek art around the text of the Elder Pliny; the archaeology of fifth-century Athens around the narratives supplied by Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon; that of Republican Rome similarly around those of Livy and Diodorus; that of Sicily again around Thucydides; and most notoriously, that of Aegean prehistory and protohistory around Homer…. But there is a deeper level still. Traditional Classical archaeology is stated…to have directed its energies at those aspects of the ancient world on which the written sources, taken as a whole, throw light. Thus, on urban but not on rural life; on public and civic, but not on domestic activity; on periods seen as historically important, but not on the obscurer ones; on the permanent physical manifestations of religion, but not on the temporary ones – sacrifice, patterns of dedication, ritual meals, pilgrimage; on the artefacts interred in burials, but not on burial itself; on the historically prominent states – in Greece, Athens and Sparta – but not on what has recently been called ‘the Third Greece’…

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“…Western Sicily is the only part of the Mediterranean where Greeks and Phoenicians settled in close proximity to one another, and nearby an indigenous tribe known as the Elymians who subsequently developed an important regional polity by 500 BCE. The topic of indigenous regional interaction is usually ignored within the greater framework of classical studies and Greek and Phoenician colonial contact [5,6,8,11,19], although the work at Monte Polizzo (locally pronounced as Po´lizzo) seeks to valuate indigenous autonomous political development as social and economic functions.…”

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confidence: 99%