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Sicily and the Making of the Greek Mediterranean

Tides of History

CHAPTER

The Ambition of Greek Colonization

In the 8th century BC, Greek colonies began to spread out across Sicily. The land hunger wasn't at the heart of all this; it was about citizenship and political power. Not everybody who wanted to matter could because if everybody mattered then nobody did. Within a single generation, a whole budding network of new settlements had appeared along the eastern coast of Sicily.

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