Mégare et les établissements mégariens de Sicile, de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin

Robu, Adrian

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“…Karayotov (2009, 99 – 102) also makes Melsas a Thracian king-priest in the manner of Getan Zalmoxis. There is no supporting evidence for anything in this interpretation, and since ΜΕΤΑ is surely an abbreviation of the name of the city (with the letter Τ [sampi] having the phonetic value of -σσ-) and not the name of the founder (Nawotka 1994a; Slavova 2009, 200; Castelli 2015, 97–8), in addition to the image on the obverse generally being interpreted as Athena (Head 1911, 278; Robu 2014, 320–1), it is better to leave Karayotov's hypothesis alone.…”

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“…Archaeology provides another reason for rejecting this hypothesis. A Thracian settlement was found beneath the earliest strata of the Greek city, but a hiatus precluded the continuation of habitation from the Thracian to the Greek city (Alexandrescu and Morintz 1982; Petrova 2013, 125; Robu 2014, 319; Damyanov 2015, 301). Without continuous habitation and the gradual transformation of the city from native to mostly Greek, there is little chance that the story of a Thracian king (or founder) would survive the age of Greek domination in Mesambria.…”

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The Founders of Western Pontic Cities

Nawotka

2021

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The Greek cities of the western coast of the Black Sea knew both foundation myths and the phenomenon of the second foundation, associated with the rebuilding of civic life after the invasion of Burebista, the king of the Getae and Dacian tribes from 82 bce to 44 bce. In most foundation stories the ktistes is either a god (in the case of the city of Dionysopolis) or a hero (in the cases of the cities of Kallatis, Tomis and Anchialos), and the stories date mostly to the Antonine age. The story of Tomos of Tomis stands out owing to its wide acceptance among the local elite, while that of Melsas of Mesambria may have never gained official acceptance: it was created in the late Hellenistic age, probably reviving a Thracian tale of Melsas, perhaps a hero, known from early-third century bce coins. The Melsas story is a prime example of cultural transfers from the native population to Greek-majority Mesambria in the Hellenistic and early Roman ages.

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The Founders of Western Pontic Cities

Nawotka

2021

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…Cf. Robu 2012, 99-104;Robu 2014b, 392-94. Robu (2012 also added the following argument that the reduction was also a result of the loss of the former Megarian kômai Aigosthena and Pagai which became independent member of the Achaian Koinon.…”

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A Note on the history of Hellenistic Megara: Τhe date of the Antigonid garrison in Aegosthena

Chrysafis

2019

Tekmeria

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This paper presents a proposal for the date of the Antigonid military presence in Aegosthena near Megara, which is known only by a Megarian honorary decree for Boiotian Zoilos, the royal commander of the garrison (IG VII 1). The named king Demetrios in the inscription could be Poliorketes (306-284 BC) or his grandson, Demetrios II (239-229 BC). All the available evidences (philological, prosopographical, letters a.o.) are examined and the conclusion is that a date around 295-287 BC is the more preferable.

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“…One of the best examples of the circulation of nomima is certainly that of the Megarian network, formed between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE (Robu 2014). Megara Nisaia, in mainland Greece, was the mother city of numerous apoikiai located in Sicily, the Propontis, and the Black Sea: Megara Hyblaea in Sicily and its own colony, Selinous; Chalkedôn, Astakos, Byzantion, and Selymbria on the Thracian Bosporus, but also Herakleia Pontike and its apoikiai; and Mesambria, Apollonia, Kallatis, and Tauric Chersonesos on the Black Sea.…”

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Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Local in Ancient Greece

Müller

2016

Oxford Handbook Topics in Classical Studies

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and KeywordsThis article examines the idea that Greek poleis were interconnected in different types of networks and that localism and the notion of the local are byproducts of globalism. It considers how Greek cities interacted through multidirectional relationships by focusing on the relationship of the polis to transnationalism and globalization. It first discusses the concept of spatial turn before turning to the interactions between poleis through supracivic structures. It then addresses the tension felt by Greek communities between the inside and the outside, the local and the global, and the civic and the supra-civic, along with the dream of insularity as a polis ideology. It also analyzes the Greek poleis' control over civic bodies and borders, especially the movements of people in and out of cities. The article suggests that localism may be better understood through the neologism of (g)localism instead of "parochialism."

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Mégare et les établissements mégariens de Sicile, de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin

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The Founders of Western Pontic Cities

The Founders of Western Pontic Cities

A Note on the history of Hellenistic Megara: Τhe date of the Antigonid garrison in Aegosthena

Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Local in Ancient Greece

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