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Naoíse Mac Sweeney | “The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration, Urbanisation, and the Emergence of Greekness?”
Naoíse Mac Sweeney | “The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration, Urbanisation, and the Emergence of Greekness?”
Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Naoíse Mac Sweeney, University of Vienna “The Birth of the Ancient Greek World: Migration, Urbanisation, and the Emergence of Greekness?” Lecture summary: By the start of the classical period, the Greek world stretched from Spain to Cyprus, and from Libya to the Crimea, and was comprised of over 1,000 autonomous polities. In this lecture, I will consider how this geographically dispersed and politically fragmented Greek world came into being over the course of the 11th to sixth centuries BCE, focusing in particular on new data from archaeological surveys designed to uncover processes of urbanisation and migration at varying scales. This new data suggests divergent pathways...