Dunbabin, T.J.
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1999 (reprint of 1948 edition).
cloth, dj., 518 pp.
Book Number 20957
From the first Greek contacts with Etruria, Latium and Sicily in the 8th century BC to the clash with the Carthaginians and the battle at Himera that marked "the last stage of the growing up of the colonies" in 480 BC, Dunbabin provides a colonial history of 'Great Greece.' He describes the foundation and expansion of the colonies and traces the process of hellenization in southern Italy and Sicily. Drawing in part on his own researches with Paolo Orsi in Syracuse, Dunbabin combines archaeological evidence and literary history to examine the colonies' relations with the mother country and with the native element in the colonized lands; the development within the colonies, covering agriculture, commerce, communications, art and industry as well as political growth; and their relations with other peoples - the Phoenicians, Etruscans, and Carthaginians.