The first Western Greeks
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The first Western Greeks
Cambridge University Press, 1992
- : pbk.
- Other Title
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L'Alba della Magna Grecia
- Uniform Title
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Alba della Magna Grecia
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
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  Korea
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Note
An earlier version published in Italian as: L'Alba della Magna Grecia
Bibliography: p. 157-171
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The purpose of this book is to acquaint a wider audience with an archaeological project that could hardly be more revolutionary: the effective discovery and excavation, from 1952 onwards, of the first Greek establishment in the West, Euboean Pithekoussai on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. This vast trading settlement is not at all typical of the Western colonial scene. Pithekoussi is very large and very early, and it marks the northern limit of Greek South Italy; furthermore, the earliest immigrants may not all have been Greek. This book about Pithekoussai and its implications is based on Giorgio Buchner's excavations there, which have revealed a variety of component sites so far without parallel in the contemporary Greek homeland. The cemetery, the acropolis dump and suburban industrial quarter each shed light on a different aspect of everyday life at one of the great crossroads of antiquity.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Part I. The Protagonist: 1. Mycenaean prologue
- 2. The Euboeans at home and abroad
- 3. Pithekoussai: and introduction
- Part II. Pithekoussai in the Second Half of the Eighth Century BC: 4. Pithekoussai: the cemetery in the Valle de San Montano
- 5. Pithekoussai: the non-funerary sites
- Part III. Interactions: 6. Pithekoussai: status and function
- 7. Campania, Latium vetus and Southern Etruria in the ninth and eighth centuries
- 8. Etruscan epilogue
- Notes on further reading
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography.
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