Author

Publication

1973 - Penguin, Harmondsworth, England

Language

English

Word Count

68,250 words, Guess

Page Count

273 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100140205810
  • ISBN-139780140205817
  • Goodreads2419431
  • Library of Congress Control Number74173989
  • Better World Books9780140205817
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Classifications

  • DDC913.39/06/81
  • LCCDF251 .B6 1973
  • LCCDF251

Description

"In Ancient Greece, colonies were sometimes founded by vanquished people, who left their homes to escape subjection at the hand of a foreign enemy; sometimes as a sequel to civil disorders, when the losers in internecine battles left to form a new city elsewhere; sometimes to get rid of surplus population, and thereby to avoid internal convulsions; and sometimes as a result of ostracism. But in most cases the motivation was to establish and facilitate relations of trade with foreign countries and further the wealth of the mother-city (in Greek, metropolis)."--Wikipedia.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Pelican books

Other Editions

  • The Greeks overseas: the archaeology of their early colonies and trade.Penguin1973-01-01
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