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The Character of Greek Colonisation1

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Aubrey Gwynn
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Three movements of expansion can be distinguished in what we know of. the history of the Greeks. The first, that of the so-called Dorian, and Ionian migrations, left them in possession of the Greek mainland, the principal islands of the Aegean, and the western seaboard of Asia Minor. The second, that of Greek colonisation properly so-called, extended the Greek world to the limits familiar to us in the history of Greece during the fifth and fourth centuries. The third, in which. Macedonian kings act as leaders, began with the conquests of Alexander, and resulted in that Hellenisation of the East which was the permanent achievement of his successors. The general character of the second of these movements forms the subject of this essay.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 38 , November 1918 , pp. 88 - 123
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2 I acknowledge my authorities in the course of the essay; but I should like here to ‘express my gratitude to Rev. E. M. Walker, of Queen's College, Oxford, and to Professor Percy Gardner for the personal help and encouragement which they have given me. It will be also plain how much I owe to the recent edition of Beloch's, Griechische Geschichte (1914)Google Scholar.

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49 Diod. viii. 17, 21, 23; cf. Strabo, pp. 262, 269, 278.

50 The oracle relating to Battus in Her. iv. 155 is also suspect. There is a longer alternative in Diod. viii. 29, and since Battus is a Libyan name, both versions carry their own condemnation. For legend of Battus, cf. Gercke, , Hermes, 1906, p. 448Google Scholar.

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105 Prof. Percy Gardner has pointed out to me that there is in the British Museum a bronze head from Cyrene, which indicates a distinct mixture of Greek and Berber.

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107 Cf. ibid. pp. 175–7, 223.

108 Strabo, p. 246. The whole chapter is of unusual interest.

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111 Cf. Busolt, op. cit. i. p. 410.

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119 Strabo, p. 384.

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134 Strabo, p. 180; ἐπιτειχίσματα

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140 Strabo, p. 159. Th. Reinach (loc. cit. pp. 51–6) thinks that these were originally settlements of Phocaea, drawn later into the sphere of Massaliot influence.

141 Prof. Myres (loc. cit. p. 63) says that Miletus ‘alone among the great colonising states of the Greek world seems, until its fall, to have kept some kind of hand over its factories.’ I am disposed to think that his view of the relations between Miletus and her colonies is correct, though I do not know of any precise evidence on the point; but I cannot allow that Miletus was alone in maintaining these relations.

142 Th. i. 38, 3.

143 Th. i. 37, 4.

144 Her. iii. 48.

145 Th. i. 55, 1; Strabo, p. 452.

146 Nic. Dam. fr. 58.

147 Th. i. 25–6.

148 Th. i. 56, 2.

149 Th. i. 24, 1: but Eusebius gives ol. 38, 4 (=625 B.C.).

150 Strabo, p. 452; Nic. Dam. fr. 58.

151 Nic. Dam. fr. 60.

152 The Cypselid family is discussed by Beloch, op. cit. i. 2, pp. 274, etc.

153 Nic. Dam. fr. 58; Strabo, p. 325.

154 Her. iii. 53; Nic. Dam. fr. 60.

155 Nic. Dam. fr. 60.

156 C. Q. 1912, p. 177, where the evidence is fully given.

157 Th. i. 26, 2; 24, 2; iii. 102, 2.

158 Th. i. 108, 4; ii. 30, 1; i. 55. 1.

159 Her. v. 94; vi. 34–39, 103.

160 Cf. Gardner, , in Brit. Mus. Catalogue, (Thessaly), pp. 47–49Google Scholar (Introd.).

161 Imhoof-Blumer, op. cit. p. 11.

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166 Her. vi. 38.

167 Th. v. 11, 1.

168 Diod. xii. 35; cf. Th. i. 25, 1 (Epidamnus).

169 Th. i. 25, 4.

170 Th. iii. 93, 4.

171 Cf. Th. v. 96, 1.

172 Th. vi. 6, 2; cf. iv. 61, 2.

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174 Her. iv. 152.

175 Th. Reinach, op. cit. pp. 52–3.

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178 Cf. Wroth, in B.M.C. (Pontus); but Prof.Gardner, P. (History of Ancient Coinage, p. 171)Google Scholar suggests that at first the Pontic cities used the electrum coinage of Miletus.

179 Her. vii. 147.

180 C.Q. 1912, pp. 91–103, 164–178.

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