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A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

12.08.2013

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

392

Maße (L/B/H)

24.4/17/2.1 cm

Gewicht

594 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-30127-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

12.08.2013

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

392

Maße (L/B/H)

24.4/17/2.1 cm

Gewicht

594 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-30127-2

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  • Produktbild: A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE
  • List of Maps x

    List of Figures xi

    List of Documents xiii

    Preface xv

    Preface to the Second Edition xvii

    Timeline xix

    1 The Practice of History 1

    The Lelantine War 1

    The Lelantine War Deconstructed 4

    What Is History? 8

    History as Literature 11

    Method and Theory 12

    2 Sources, Evidence, Dates 16

    Evaluating Sources 16

    Dating Archaic Poets 21

    Non-Literary Evidence 26

    Ancient Chronography 29

    Archaeological Dating 33

    3 The End of the Mycenaean World and Its Aftermath 41

    Mycenaean Greece 41

    Gauging the Historicity of the Dorian Migration 44

    Alternative Explanations 51

    The Loss and Recovery of Writing 56

    Whose Dark Age? 59

    4 Communities of Place 68

    Defining the Polis 68

    The Urban Aspect of the Polis: Houses, Graves, and Walls 72

    Political and Economic Functions 81

    Cultic Communities 85

    Polis and Ethnos 90

    5 New Homes Across the Seas 96

    On the Move 99

    The Credibility of Colonial Foundation Stories 105

    Pots and Peoples 111

    A Spartan Foundation? Taras, Phalanthos, and the Partheniai 116

    Hunger or Greed? 120

    6 The Changing Nature of Authority 126

    Charting the Genesis of the State 126

    Kings or "Big-Men"? 127

    The Emergence of an Aristocracy 134

    Laws and Institutions 138

    The Return of the "Big-Man" 144

    Excursus I. A Cautionary Tale: Pheidon of Argos 154

    7 Fighting for the Fatherland 165

    A Hoplite Revolution? 165

    Some More Equal Than Others 174

    Conquest, Territory, and Exploitation 181

    Excursus II. Archaeological Gaps: Attica and Crete 190

    8 Defining the Political Community 200

    Looking to the End 200

    The Role of the Dêmos and the Great Rhetra 205

    Drawing Boundaries 211

    Land, Labor, and the Crisis in Attica 214

    The "Second Sex" 220

    Excursus III. Evaluating the Spartan Mirage 227

    9 The City of Theseus 235

    The End of the Tyranny 235

    The Birth of Democracy? 238

    The Unification of Attica 243

    Theseus: Democrat or Autocrat? 251

    The (A)typicality of Athens 255

    10 Making a Living 260

    Conceptualizing Ancient Economic Activity 260

    A Peasant Economy? 262

    Plying the Seas 268

    The Introduction of Coinage 275

    Excursus IV. The Rise of Persia and the Invasions of Greece 282

    11 Imagining Greece 290

    "Greek" Culture: Unity and Diversity 290

    Greeks and Others: The External Dimension 293

    The Emergence of Panhellenism: The Internal Dimension 301

    The Invention of the Barbarian 308

    12 Writing the History of Archaic Greece 312

    The First Sacred War: Fact or Fiction? 312

    The Limits of Narrative History 317

    Dividing up Time and Space 320

    Abbreviations and Glossary of Literary Sources 326

    Works Cited in the Further Reading 330

    Guide to Electronic Resources 339

    Index 342