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03006aam a2200409 i 4500 001 AB55B952332F11E49E51C4E1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140903010030 008 131107s2014 njuab b 001 0deng 010 $a 2013034456 020 $a 0691161054 (hardback) 020 $a 9780691161051 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)861677457 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gr--- 050 00 $a DF222.2 $b .G37 2014 082 00 $a 938 $2 23 084 $a HIS002000 $a HIS002000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Garland, Robert, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Wandering Greeks : $b the ancient Greek diaspora from the age of Homer to the death of Alexander the Great / $c Robert Garland. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2014] 300 $a xxi, 319 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere--or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Greeks $x History $x History $y To 1500. 651 0 $a Greece $x Social conditions $y To 146 B.C. 651 0 $a Greece $x Civilization $y To 146 B.C. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Ancient / General. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 5 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091729.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214024028.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826095333.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20150520012112.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20150210011607.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB55B952332F11E49E51C4E1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search