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  • 6 - Myth and colonial territory: Libya

  • Irad Malkin, Tel-Aviv University
  • Foreword by Nicholas Purcell, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
    Published online:
    31 October 2024
    Print publication:
    13 June 2024, pp 169-191

  • Summary

    Territorial myths may ’open up’ the territory, articulating rights or telling how it became possible to inhabit it, or they may ’close’ it, delimiting it and explaining why it is ’full’. Opening myths function either through an expressly articulated charter or through the identification of certain mythic scenes and events with particular places. Such localizations, involving the concretization and remapping of mythic geography, are rather flexible and seem to have evolved as the Greek colonies expanded. ’Closing myths’, on the other hand, express the end of expansion by defining (and justifying) territorial limits. Both these types are classified as historical myths – myths that function in history, have a dynamic relation with it, and are subject to changes because of it.