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  Greek and Roman Colonisation. Origins, ideologies and interactions
edited by G. J. Bradley
ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-06-7 ISBN-10: 1-905125-06-2, hardback, 190 pp., 2005, £45
 
The term 'colonisation' encompasses much diversity, from the settlement of the western Mediterranean and the Black sea by Greeks in the archaic period to the foundation of Roman colonies in mainland Italy during the Republic. Though very different in their motives and methods, both Greek and Roman colonisations are presented by our sources as organised and clearly defined processes, within which internal and external relations were firmly delineated. This volume contains six new studies, two Greek and four Roman. Contributors employ historiographical, comparative and post-colonial approaches to question ancient constructs. The book contains detailed case-studies as well as synoptic treatments. Contributors build on recent research in Greek and Roman history to show how ideologies of colonisation develop and come to dominate the historical record.
 

CONTENTS
Introduction - Guy Bradley and John-Paul Wilson
'Ideologies' of Greek colonisation - John-Paul Wilson
Coloniam deducere: not what it used to be - Edward Bispham
Colonisation and identity in Republican Italy - Guy Bradley
Colonisation and historiography: the Roman Republic - John Patterson
Early colonisation at Euesperides: origins and interactions - David Gill
From Poseidonia to Paestum via the Lucanians - Michael Crawford
 

Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 100 (2010), pp. 248-250.

"We are presented with both criticism of previous approaches and new models with which to replace them. The disjunction between the narrow literary record and what we know more generally about archaic society reveals ways in which the traditional narrative may be very much distorted. This is an undeniable achievement of the collection".