Lecture 6 - Colonisation I Sources And Problems

Question 1

Emporion

Answer 1

Trading post

Question 2

Apoikia

Answer 2

Home away from home

Question 3

Metropolis

Answer 3

Mother city

Question 4

Oikist

Answer 4

Founder

Question 5

Colonies and poleis- Homer’s Odyssey discussing King Nausithos

Answer 5

“He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples…”

Question 6

Phoenician influence

Answer 6

They were active within the Mediterranean. They traded in purple, glass and metals. In the 9th century BCE they settled in Cadiz, Carthage in 814 BCE, Motya on Sicily during the 8th century.

Question 7

Phoenician contact with the Greeks - Herodotus

Answer 7

“The Phoenicians introduced to Greece the art of writing, until unknown to the Greeks”.

Question 8

Robyn Osborne - foundation of towns

Answer 8

“During the last third of the eighth century BC a new town was founded on south Italy or Sicily about every other year”.

Question 9

Thucydides 1.2 - migration

Answer 9

“It is evident that the country now called Hellas had in ancient times no settled population”

“Migrations were of frequent occurence”

Question 10

Towns founded in Italy

Answer 10

Pithecusae, Kyme, Sybaris, Taras

Question 11

Towns founded on Sicily

Answer 11

Naxos, Gela, Leontini

Question 12

Towns founded in North Africa

Answer 12

Cyrene, Naukratis

Question 13

Towns founded in the Hellespont and Black Sea

Answer 13

Byzantium, Sinope, Olbia

Question 14

Towns founded in the western Mediterranean

Answer 14

Emporion and Messalia

Question 15

Colonies of Corinth

Answer 15

Cocyra, Leukos, Syracuse…

Question 16

Colonies of Miletus

Answer 16

Cyzicus, Parion, Sinope…

Question 17

Colonies of Athens

Answer 17

Soloi, sigeion

Question 18

Colonies of Sparta

Answer 18

Taras, Thera

Question 19

Example of problems - Al Mina

Answer 19

Settlement on this site from 800, earliest Greek pottery 750 BCE. However there is no evidence for permanent Greek settlement.