A Small Greek World —— Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean

----- 小希腊世界：古代地中海的网络

ISBN: 9780199315727 出版年：2012 页码：305 Malkin, Irad Oxford University Press

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.