I Greci nel Mediterraneo: mobilità, commercio, fondazioni. Qualche considerazione sul dibattito in corso

Greeks in the Mediterranean: mobility, commerce, foundations. Some considerations on the ongoing debate. The discussion in progress in the last fifteen years around Greek movements, traditionally defined as colonial, opened a new season of debates of great usefulness for the definition of a number of concepts, in which archaeological data should be framed. In this paper, we discuss about centers, and about peripheral settlements as well, with commercial features, and about of stable foundations that we will avoid calling “colonies”, as this is an anachronistic term: we will instead use the Greek word of apoikia.