Title The dance of the islands : insularity, networks, the Athenian empire, and the Aegean world / Christy Constantakopoulou

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : maps, plans Series Oxford classical monographs Oxford classical monographs. Contents 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 -- Appendix: Island entries in the Athenian Tribute Quota Lists Summary This book examines the history of the Aegean islands and the changing concepts of insularity in the late archaic and classical period, with particular emphasis on the 5th century and the period of Athenian imperial control over the Aegean world. The predominant presence of islands in the Aegean geographic landscape inevitably created a variety of different and sometimes even conflicting perceptions of insularity. Using the theoretical concept of network, the book examines the religious networks of the insular world of the Aegean (Calauria and Delos) and their later transformation into networks of imperial control for 5th-century Athens. Athenian control over the islands transformed the concept of insularity in Greek thought and even provided powerful imagery for Athenian self-representation, exemplified in the metaphor of the ‘island of Athens’. Imperial Athens may have strengthened some aspects of the concept of insularity, such as ‘weak island’ or ‘safe island’, but beyond imperial politics, there also lay a world of frequent interaction outside the sphere of mainstream political narrative. The book examines the cases of island-networking on a micro-political and economic level, as well the interaction between islands and their mainland dependencies, the peraiai Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject HISTORY. Historical geography Außenpolitik Eilanden. Griekse oudheid. SUBJECT 880-01 Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) -- History 880-01/(S Αθήνα (Ελλάδα) -- Ιστορία Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) -- Historical geography Subject Mediterranean Region -- Aegean Islands Ägäische Inseln Athen Egeïsche Zee. Egeiska öarna -- historia -- antiken. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781435609877 1435609875 9780191527067 0191527068 9780191706868 0191706868 0191615455 9780191615450 1281149519 9781281149510 9786611149512 6611149511

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