choosing an oikistes. After he is appointed and directed to found a colony, he also consults the Delphic oracle. Due to his authority, the oikistes was often...

the Greek Dark Ages, in that it consisted of organised direction (see oikistes) away from the originating metropolis rather than the simplistic movement...

the Greek Dark Ages, in that it consisted of organised direction (see oikistes) away from the originating metropolis rather than the simplistic movement...

or colony; contributing to the settling'. It was derived from οἰκιστής (oikistēs), an ancient Greek noun meaning 'the person who installs settlers in place'...

Eventually, they came to regard Hesiod too as their "hearth-founder" (οἰκιστής, oikistēs). Later writers attempted to harmonize these two accounts. Yet another...

Greeks) with impressive pomp, and was subsequently regarded as the founder (oikistes) of the city and honoured with yearly games and sacrifices. At Sparta a...

Oenotrians and Japigi, in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age. Kroton's oikistes (founder) was Myscellus, from the city of Rhypes in Achaea in the northern...

including The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens, Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient...

(newly founded cities detached from their cities of origin and led by an oikistes). The native inhabitants of the island were the Sicani, the Siculi and...

From Pausanias we hear of his taking the Sicanian town of Omphace as an oikistes, and carrying off from it a statue made by the legendary Daedalus. The...

manage the different confederate city-state members, a council of ten oikistes was appointed to rule in the city. This inter-city effort represents a...

an inscription to have been named Kineas, was the Seleucid epistates or oikistes who governed the first settlers of Ai-Khanoum. The archaeologists unearthed...

the City, ca. 479 BCE". In Gorman, Vanessa B.; Robinson, Eric (eds.). Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient...

monument), identified in Greek as the tomb of Kineas (also described as the oikistes (founder) of the Greek settlement) and dated to 300-250 BC, the inscription...

(Locris) Oeum Cerameicum Oeum Deceleicum Ogyges Ogygia Oicles Oikeiôsis Oikistes Oikonomos Oikos Oileus Oinochoe by the Shuvalov Painter Oizys Olaeis Old...