A SMALL GREEK WORLD: Networks In The Ancient Mediterranean (Greeks Overseas)

A SMALL GREEK WORLD: Networks In The Ancient Mediterranean (Greeks Overseas) by MALKIN, Irad. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780199315727.

Should we admire the Greeks for having created their civilization in spite of, or because of, the enormous distances separating their independent communities? The book claims it was a network-dynamics of Small World formation that rapidly foreshortened Mediterranean spaces, thus allowing the flows of civilizational content and self-aware notions of collective identity to overlap and proliferate.