Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean.

Abstract

Introduction 1. The 'colony of the Dorians' and the Return of the Herakleidai 2. The Homeric king of Sparta: Menelaos in a Spartan Mediterranean 3. Spartan colonisation in the Aegean and the Peloponnese 4. Taras: native hostility, territorial possession, and a new-ancient past 5. Foundation and territory: the cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon 6. Myth and colonial territory: Libya 7. Promises unfulfilled: Dorieus between North Africa and Sicily 8. Myth and decolonization: Sparta's colony at Herakleia Trachinia.