Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
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...Thus was Metapontion reputedly settled by Pylians after the Trojan War, Siris by the Trojans themselves, Petelia and its vicinity by Philoktekes, Lagaría by Epeios (the builder of the Trojan Horse), Argyripa by Diomedes, Skylletion by the Athenians under Menestheus, and Praeneste, along with other sites in Latium and on the west coast of Italy, by companions of Odysseus (Dunbabin 1948a, 32–4).9 Kroton itself alluded to Herakles as its founder, as is suggested by the late fifthcentury BC coin depicting a young Herakles and the inscription OIKISTAS (see above; Kraay & Hirmer 1966, pl. 93, no. 267; Icard-Gianolio 2000, 225)....
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...…are adamant on this point, for in constructing their own ethnic identity the Akhaian communities of South Italy traced their ethnic solidarity back — via Akhaia in the northern Peloponnese — to the ‘pre-Dorian’ inhabitants of Lakonia and the Argolid (Hall 1997, 181; Morgan & Hall 1996, 197, 214)....
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...Jonathan Hall (1997, 137), for example, citing the observations of Dieter Mertens (1976; 1990), has argued that another way of active signalling through material culture is provided by the architecture of the Akhaian colonies....
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...The point is well elaborated in the recent volume on the history of money edited by Jonathan Williams (1997, 25): . . . if we look at these early electrum objects from the perspective of the older uses of metal that we Artemis at Ephesos, represents a type of context not common for later Greek silver coins (Hogarth 1908, ch. 5; Kraay 1976, 20–23)....
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...For Kaulonia, as Catherine Morgan and Jonathan Hall (1996, 208–9) have argued, there are two concurrent foundation versions: a Krotoniate version, naming Kroton as the Kaulonian metropolis, and a Kaulonian version, which attempted to establish a first-generation Akhaian pedigree....
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