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Book SynopsisHow and why did the Greek city-states come into being? The study of Greece in the Archaic period is changing due to new discoveries and interpretations. The 14 essays presented here explore many aspects of this rapidly changing world. The essays detail re-interpretations of archaeological material, emphasize the diversity in patterns of settlement, sancturies and burial practices of the Greek-speaking world and trace the complex trends and motivations underlying the expanding exchange of goods and the settlement of new communities. Local studies of archaeology and iconography revise our image of the peculiarity of Spartan society, and texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly discovered poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations, as are significant developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent lifestyle and the articulation of rational political thought.
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction -
Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees Part I: Diversity in Development: Interpreting Archaeological and Iconographical Evidence 1. Archaeology and Archaic Greek History -
Ian Morris 2. Lakonian Artistic Production and the Problem of Spartan Austerity -
Stephen Hodkinson 3. Sixth-Century Lakonian Vase-Painting: Continuities and Discontinuities with the Lykourgan Ethos
- Anton Powell 4. Athena as Ergane and Promachos: The Iconography of Athena in Archaic East Greece
- Alexandra Villing Part II: Interpreting Poetry and Myth 5. A Historian's Headache: How to Read Homeric Society?
- Kurt Raaflaub 6. Homer's Enemies: Lyric and Epic in the Seventh Century
- Andrew Dalby 7. What Was in Pandora's Box?
- Daniel Ogden 8. The New Simonides and Heroization at Plataia
- Deborah Boedeker Part III: Integrating the Evidence: Power, Status, Exchange, and State-Formation 9. Early Greek Colonization? The Nature of Greek Settlement in the West
- Robin Osborne 10. Towards Thalassocracy? Archaic Greek Naval Developments
- Philip de Souza 11. Cargoes of the Heart's Desire: The Character of Trade in the Archaic Mediterranean World
- Lin Foxhall 12. Literacy and Lawmaking: The Case of Archaic Crete
- James Whitley 13. Greeks Bearing Arms: The State, the Leisure Class, and the Display of Weapons in Archaic Greece
- Hans van Wees 14. Writing the History of Archaic Greek Political Thought
- Paul Cartledge Bibliography Index
