La colonización griega de Iberiamitos, héroes, topónimos
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Real Academia Española
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- María José García Blanco (coord.)
- Teresa Amado Rodríguez (coord.)
- María José Martín Velasco (coord.)
- Amelia Pereiro Pardo (coord.)
- Manuel Enrique Vázquez Buján (coord.)
- Juan José Moralejo (hom.)
Éditorial: Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico ; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
ISBN: 978-84-9887-720-5
Année de publication: 2011
Pages: 483-499
Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage
Résumé
The author evaluates the significance of the colonization of Iberia for the Greeks. In his opinion this means nothing more than the continuation of the lndoeuropean peoples' North and West expansion. The Greeks pretended to see in this the creation of a new Greece, a prolongation of hellenism. To make Greek colonists and sailors feel practically at home, they took West sorne Greek myths, divine as wefl as heroic; they somehow signafled for them the future. And so they filled the new geography with Greek names, sorne they brought from Greece as such, sorne were indigenous and hellenized phoenician, sorne still Greek names describing the new geography, or simply showing in them the hopes they set for the future of the new cities.