... as Greek culture, society and politics evolved and also that peoples of individual city states may have colonised for very different reasons. As it would be extremely challenging to account for each example in the period, in this essay I will deal with a selection, which may provide some general suggestions to explain the wider colonising movement. One of the most rational and accepted explanations for colonisation of land throughout this area during this period, is the demand for more fertile land, stimulated by population increase and for some historians, such as Aubrey Gwynn, this is the main reason 'above all else'1. This may be because, following the argument of Gwynn, that the Greek states that championed colonisation including Corinth, Chalcis, Phocaea and Miletus were all coastal settlements with a certain amount of fertile land and were prevented from expanding inland by 'natural obstacles or by the neighbourhood of powerful ...

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