Greek Colonies and Networks in the Iron Age: Interview with Dr. Lieve Donnellan

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

One of the best ways to understand how the ancient world functioned is to think in terms of networks and interactions between people and places. Dr. Lieve Donnellan of the University of Melbourne is an archaeologist who specializes in applying network theory to southern Italy and the Greek world in the Iron Age, and she's come up with some fascinating and innovative ways of understanding the ancient Mediterranean.

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0:05.6	I everybody from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:20.8	It is great to have you all here and thanks for joining me.
0:24.6	The Iron Age Mediterranean was full of people moving around.
0:28.4	They were traders taking goods from one place to another.
0:31.5	In other cases, they were migrants leaving their homes behind to make new ones a long way
0:35.0	across the sea.
0:36.8	This spectrum of movement ranging from short-term trips to permanent migration made the Mediterranean
0:41.4	an incredibly dynamic and interconnected place.
0:44.9	Built on that foundation, the Mediterranean would become the beating heart, the center of
0:48.6	the classical world in the centuries to come.
0:52.2	The Greeks tend to occupy a privileged place in that story, but our understanding of their
0:56.7	role and how they interacted with the people they met has changed dramatically in recent
1:00.6	decades.
1:01.8	New archaeological research, the accumulation of massive sets of data, and most important
1:06.0	new tools and ways of understanding the evidence have transformed how we think of the Greeks.
1:11.3	Dr. Liva Donnellan works right on the cutting edge of our new understanding of both the Greeks
1:15.8	and the Mediterranean, focusing on colonization, migration, and networks.
1:20.4	She's lecturer in classical Greek archaeology at the University of Melbourne and directs
1:23.8	the Plan of Geoia Survey Project in Calabria.
1:27.3	In addition to editing the volume archaeological networks and social interaction, she has
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