Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece

Experience of the Nonelite Population

Gabriel Zuchtriegel

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781108419031
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108515849
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

In this book, Gabriel Zuchtriegel explores and reconstructs the unwritten history of Classical Greece - the experience of nonelite colonial populations. Using postcolonial critical methods to analyze Greek settlements and their hinterlands of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, he reconstructs the social and economic structures in which exploitation, violence, and subjugation were implicit. He mines literary sources and inscriptions, as well as archaeological and data from excavations and field surveys, much of it published here for the first time, that offer new insights into the lives and status of nonelite populations in Greek colonies. Zuchtriegel demonstrates that Greece's colonial experience has far-reaching implications beyond the study of archaeology and ancient history. As reflected in foundational texts such as Plato's 'Laws' and Aristotle's 'Politics', the ideology that sustained Greek colonialism is still felt in many Western societies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of illustrations
• List of tables
• Preface
• One Places of Darkness: Colonial Settlements and the History of Classical Greece
• Two Huts and Houses: A Question of Ideology?
• Three Tombs: Visibility and Invisibility in Colonial Societies
• Four Fields: Colonial Definitions of Equality
• Five Farms: The End of Equality?
• Six Mountains: The Limits of Greekness and Citizenship
• Seven Workshops: Banausoi in the Colony
• Eight Classical Greece from a Colonial Perspective
• Bibliography
• Index