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Sicily and the Making of the Greek Mediterranean
Tides of History
The Differences Between Greek and Phoenician Colonization
For a long time, scholars saw Greek and Phoenician colonization as very different phenomena. The settlements they built were trading posts that offered proximity to key goods like metals. Now the Greeks, by contrast, wanted good, arable farmland; their cities were meant to be centers of new polities. So when we think of these two different strands of colonization, we really shouldn't be thinking of Phoenician traders and Greek farmers as our archetypes,.
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