Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean.

1996-04-01articleThe American Historical Review77 citationsclosed

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Classical Antiquity Studies Classical Philosophy and Thought Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History

Abstract

Introduction 1. The 'colony of the Dorians' and the Return of the Herakleidai 2. The Homeric king of Sparta: Menelaos in a Spartan Mediterranean 3. Spartan colonisation in the Aegean and the Peloponnese 4. Taras: native hostility, territorial possession, and a new-ancient past 5. Foundation and territory: the cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon 6. Myth and colonial territory: Libya 7. Promises unfulfilled: Dorieus between North Africa and Sicily 8. Myth and decolonization: Sparta's colony at Herakleia Trachinia.

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