01-01-2011, 06:10 AM
There appears to be some studies about Greek colonisation out there, but I haven’t personally read any of them.
In Cornell’s excellent Beginnings of Rome he mentions these books in his bibliography:
Ridgway, First Western Greeks, 1992
O Murray, Early Greece, 1980
J Boardman, The Greeks Overseas, 1980
AJ Graham, Cambridge Ancient History III.3
Forsyth, in his A Critical History of Early Rome, cites (in addition to some also mentioned in Cornell):
Dunabin, The Western Greeks: The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Clonies to 480 BC, 1948
Woodhead, The Greeks in the West, 1962
Holloway, Italy and the Aegean 3000 – 700 BC, 1981
Frederiksen, Campania, 1984
Forsyth and Cornell both praise Ridgway. Forsyth says the book includes a “detailed analysis of the important archaeological data from the Greek colonial site of Pithecusa.” Since both of them like Ridgway, this might be a good one to check out. It also evidently includes a superb bibliography of other sources.
You might also try playing around with searches in The Journal of Hellenistic Studies. Go to “publications,” then pick one of the annual contents for the journal and there you can search. I would be flabbergasted if you couldn’t find anything buried in there somewhere.
In Cornell’s excellent Beginnings of Rome he mentions these books in his bibliography:
Ridgway, First Western Greeks, 1992
O Murray, Early Greece, 1980
J Boardman, The Greeks Overseas, 1980
AJ Graham, Cambridge Ancient History III.3
Forsyth, in his A Critical History of Early Rome, cites (in addition to some also mentioned in Cornell):
Dunabin, The Western Greeks: The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Clonies to 480 BC, 1948
Woodhead, The Greeks in the West, 1962
Holloway, Italy and the Aegean 3000 – 700 BC, 1981
Frederiksen, Campania, 1984
Forsyth and Cornell both praise Ridgway. Forsyth says the book includes a “detailed analysis of the important archaeological data from the Greek colonial site of Pithecusa.” Since both of them like Ridgway, this might be a good one to check out. It also evidently includes a superb bibliography of other sources.
You might also try playing around with searches in The Journal of Hellenistic Studies. Go to “publications,” then pick one of the annual contents for the journal and there you can search. I would be flabbergasted if you couldn’t find anything buried in there somewhere.
David J. Cord
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