I tend to rankle when people compare the colonialism of the last few centuries with the pre-capitalist expansion and settlement of ancient societies. It seems like there's a lot of daylight between the English founding Jamestown and ancient Ionians founding Massalia or w/e.
But what do Hexbear's historians think? Is it fundamentally the same social phenomenon across time or is capitalist settler-colonialism its own unique thing?
:sadness: i got to read a ton of articles in school about the hellenistic period and poleis but since i dropped out & my school laptop killed itself i don't have them anymore.
you can hit up encyclopedia iranica though that place has tonnes on greek cities/settlement, religion, culture etc. as it interacted with west asia
Thanks, I had no idea that emcyclopedia iranica was even a thing! Condolences for your school laptop though, I'll light a candle tonight for it.
Check out this one, too: http://www.achemenet.com/
Were you the one I recommended the fiction book set in the ancient Greek period "Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece" by Chen Rui? If not I recommend it because it touches on the period of the March of the Ten Thousand and the rule of Dionysius the Elder in Sicily.
@Wertheimer and @Bluegrass_Buddhist you might like it too.
Bit of trivia about the dictator of Sicily:
Stolen from wikipedia
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I have a vewy good fwiend in Athens named Megatestikles :biggus-dickus:
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