The Dance of the Islands

Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921595-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions of insularity in classical Greek thought. Geographic analysis of insularity emphasizes the interplay between island isolation and island interaction, but the predominance of islands in the Aegean sea made island isolation almost impossible. Rather, island connectivity was an important feature of the history of the Aegean and was expressed on many levels. Constantakopoulou investigates island interaction in two prominent areas, religion and imperial politics, examining both the religious networks located on islands in the ancient Greek world and the impact of imperial politics on the Aegean islands during the fifth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Constantakopoulou, Christy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Religious networks in the archaic Aegean

- 3: The Aegean islands as an imperial network: the fifth century and the Athenian Empire

- 4: Islands and imperialism

- 5: The island of Athens

- 6: The smaller picture: mini island networks

- 7: Beyond insularity: islands and their peraiai

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Christy Constantakopoulou is Lecturer in Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London.