《Colonisation Greece on the move》.pdf

Cambridge Companions Online /cambridge/companions/ The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by H. A. Shapiro Book DOI: /10.1017/CCOL9780521822008 Online ISBN: 9781139001373 Hardback ISBN: 9780521822008 Paperback ISBN: 9780521529297 Chapter 8 - Colonization Greece on the Move, 900-480 pp. 201-224 Chapter DOI: /10.1017/CCOL9780521822008.009 Cambridge University Press 8: Colonization: Greece on the Move, 900–480 Carla M. Antonaccio S tension between two views of the Archaic period, one empha- Asizing the emergence of the individual, the other stressing the importance of the community, is as dominant in approaches to colonization as in everything else. Colonization, on the one hand, is viewed as a kind of protocapitalist enterprise of self-starting, pioneering risk-takers and entrepreneurs as well as the castoffs of society (and an individual affair). Alternatively, colonization is seen as a protoimperialist movement that established Hellenism in foreign territory, secured trade for the mother city, and inscribed the polis by means of the spatial alloca- tions of city and country that some of the earliest colonies created. Thus establishing a colony was an official activity of an established state, or city-state (polis). In encounters between Hellenes and indigenes, more- over, Greek colonization could be seen to prefigure the classic trope of Greek and Other, which was fully expressed in the struggles with the Persians that unfolded in the late Archaic period. Indeed, the definition and redefinition of Hellenic identity, of Greekness or “Hellenicity,” was ongoing and continued right through the end of Greek hegem