Potential networks and communities in Greek historiography: a semantic and narrative approach
Abstract
This paper aims to discuss, using passages from Greek historians and based on an approach both historical and historiographical-philological, key terms and passages from the lexicon that make up the semantic field on exile, deportation, banishment and initiatives to establish potential networks and communities of migrants, that is, that were not fully realized or failed, as well as resulting in human or economic losses, political setbacks, destruction, dispersion, enslavement or wars, especially when they co-involve situations of failure or collapse of democracies through (or not) prolonged stáseis – perhaps the main trigger of migration processes in the ancient world. As a rule, the passages discussed below simply mention and describe the migratory phenomenon, showing little interest in the initiatives of the migrants themselves, even less in examining their establishment in the communities that welcomed them, or how their presence reinforces or weakens democratic or non-organizational regimes. When historians do show interest in the phenomenon, such interest can be seen as emphasis on the description of populations forced to leave their cities and sold into slavery.
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