Everything about Synoikismos totally explained
Synoikismos roughly means "dwelling together" in
Greek and was created to oppose
hegemony. In the history of ancient
Greece, this term refers to the political process by which a group of villages and settlements are synchronized to form a
polis. In the
poleis, the
synoikistes was the person who, according to local tradition, performed the
synoikismos, either through his personal influence or by conquest, and subsequently was worshipped as a demi-god. The most notable
synoikistes was the mythic or legendary
Theseus, who liberated
Attica from
Cretan hegemony and gave independency back to Greece under leadership of
Athens.
Archaeology
Synoikismos is the name of an ancient
Cretan archaeological site on the western fringes of
Troullos. Artifacts found at the site include a
terracotta bull figurine, a bronze statuette and
Late Minoan I pottery.
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