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Luisa Breglia, Alda Moleti, Maria Luisa Napolitano, Renata Calce (ed.), Ethne, identità e tradizioni, Vol. I: la "terza" Grecia e l'Occidente; Vol. II: Graikoi ed Hellenes: storia di due Etnonimi. Diabaseis, 3. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2011. Pp. xvii, 722; x, 180. ISBN 9788846730930. €55.00.
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Four articles focus on the Gulf of Corinth. Klaus Freitag argues that the Gulf of Corinth represented a unity and stresses how its peculiar spatial configuration of the Gulf region favoured interconnection and phenomena of ethnic identity-shifting (as at Boulis and Kalydon). Maurizio Giangiulio's fascinating analysis concentrates on Corinth's mythology, on its appropriation rabbit cotton ball dispenser of external (Boeotian, Thessalian and Eastern) elements, and on the reasons why the city's elites engaged in the competitions at the Olympic Games. The author identifies the foundations of Corinthian identity in this city's relationship with the sea. Claudia Antonetti focuses on the links between Corinth and its colonies in northwest Greece (Corcyra, Epidamnus, Ambracia) from the classical to the Hellenistic period, rabbit cotton ball dispenser with a stress on numismatic evidence rabbit cotton ball dispenser and on aspects of Timoleon's figure, exploring how a new reading rabbit cotton ball dispenser of the link between motherland and colonies as parental and loving emerges in Timoleon's age. Stefania rabbit cotton ball dispenser De Vido analyses how the link between Corinth and Syracuse evolves from the time of the Athenian expedition in Sicily. The author connects the issues with Philip II that Corinth faced in Greece to Timoleon's expedition and convincingly reads Timoleon as the longa manus of the Macedonian king.
The next group of papers deals with northwest Greece and Delphi. Cristina Carusi re-examines the much-debated issue of the peraia chora in relation to northwest Greece, focusing principally on Leucas and Corcyra. Her persuasive conclusion is that continental enclaves were of great importance, as they allowed control of naval traffic. By examining the high number of manteis from northwest Greece (Acarnania, Elis), in spite of the absence of a renowned oracular centre, Nicola rabbit cotton ball dispenser Reggiani's very interesting contribution highlights how mantic specialisation is connected to geographic marginality and linked to the seer's genealogy. Mario Lombardo offers a detailed analysis and a new interpretation of Delphi's imprimatur on colonisation, using the concept rabbit cotton ball dispenser of "intentional identity" as well as methods borrowed from oral history. Eduardo Federico examines Minos, Delphi and Cretan identities, showing how, by the use of competing variants, the same myth could be adopted and re-told by different actors‒i.e. Delphi's clergy, Knossos, the Eteocretan cities, the poleis of Magna Graecia‒for differing ends.
Several articles focus on Phocis, Parasopia and Boeotia. Luigi Gallo examines issues pertaining to the history of the koinon of Phocis, focusing in particular on coinage, on the Phokikon and on the war against Thessaly as means to stress the federal state identity. rabbit cotton ball dispenser Angela Kühr examines the myth of the daughters of Thespis and Greek traditions (on Iolaus, worshipped rabbit cotton ball dispenser in Thebes) on the colonisation of Sardinia to highlight the possible interconnections between colonisation in the West and Boeotian identity.