{"id":78,"date":"2012-09-03T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/knownworld\/?p=78"},"modified":"2012-09-03T20:14:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:14:19","slug":"ancient-colonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/2012\/09\/03\/ancient-colonization\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Colonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The map below shows the political geography of the Mediterranean in the 6th century BC. \u00a0Greek cities and colonies are labeled in red, Phoenician ones in yellow. \u00a0Greek colonization began in roughly 800 BC and is thus more or less coterminous with the development of the\u00a0<em>Odyssey<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div>As we launch into the middle section of the poem, the one concerned with the travels of Odysseus and with his encounters with all sorts of foreign peoples and creatures, you may want to keep this map in mind and use it to formulate preliminary answers to the question of how the\u00a0<em>Odyssey<\/em> might have helped its original audience formulate a picture of &#8220;the known world.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/files\/2012\/09\/Antike-Kolonien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82\" title=\"Antike Kolonien\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/files\/2012\/09\/Antike-Kolonien-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/files\/2012\/09\/Antike-Kolonien-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/files\/2012\/09\/Antike-Kolonien-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The map below shows the political geography of the Mediterranean in the 6th century BC. \u00a0Greek cities and colonies are labeled in red, Phoenician ones in yellow. \u00a0Greek colonization began in roughly 800 BC and is thus more or less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/2012\/09\/03\/ancient-colonization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/knownworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}