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Greek Colonization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Mary E. White
Mary E. White
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University of Toronto
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Greek colonization had a long and varied history; it had begun indeed had already accomplished its first great period of expansion before the first Greek historians wrote; it continued in different forms intermittently throughout the classical period, had a second great era under Alexander the Great and the early Hellenistic monarchies, and again persisted with modifications after Rome became mistress of the eastern Mediterranean. The result we all know: the Greek polis, that closely integrated self-governing community of citizens, became the dominant political unit and political ideal of the Mediterranean world, and left its indelible imprint, for good or ill, on the Western World.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 1961 , pp. 443 - 454
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1961

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