CLA260H1 Lecture : CLA260 - lecture 21.doc
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Getting the measure of the land 1: founding a new colony. Some saian exults in my shield which i left a faultless weapon beside a bush against my will. I"ll get one that"s just as good another time. (archilochus (7th century bc), fragment 5). The establishment of new settlements was an important feature of many periods of classical antiquity. The english word colony" is derived from the latin colonia. The romans meant by this a specific kind of new settlement, which was not quite like anything in greek experience (and so in greek texts the word is not translated but transliterated as kolonia). The word for the new settlements founded by greeks in the archaic and classical periods was apoikia (pl. apoikiai; literally something like new home"). In the archaic period especially there is often no clear distinction between the settlements referred to as apoikiai and those called emporia (sing. emporion) or trading posts".