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The Dance of the Islands

Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World

Christy Constantakopoulou author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:29th Jul '10

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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.

Review from previous edition [A] highly coherent and enlightening excavation of the inter-relationship between island realities, island ideologies, and ideas of insularity. * Robin Osborne, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

ISBN: 9780199591176

Dimensions: 216mm x 137mm x 20mm

Weight: 426g

348 pages