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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With its copious fine illustrations and lucid exposition, this is an extraordinary resource for the teacher of Greek archaeology."
---Robin Osborne, World Archaeology"In this significant reinterpretation, Arrington convincingly maintains that material culture and knowledge did not flow from East to West just through multiethnic elites; it also flowed through the interactions of non-elites."
---C. C. Kolb, Choice Reviews"In his wonderfully stimulating book, Nathan Arrington has the people on the margins of 7th-century Attica have their voices roaring back into the debate. . . . [It] should be read by anyone interested in the subaltern perspective, artistry and pottery, as well as the historiography behind many of the discipline’s accepted assumptions."
---Roy van Wijk, The Classical Journal"This is an inspiring book. It is not only well researched, nicely illustrated and elegantly written, but it offers a whole range of new perspectives on the Protoattic style and its wider context, with the objects themselves (and their agency) taking center stage."
---Maximilian Rönnberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"Thought-provoking and ambitious…[t]his unconventional volume – beautifully phrased and engagingly written – is very clear and well structured, with numerous high-quality images helping readers to follow [Arrington’s] descriptions and readings of the vases."
---Adriano Orsingher, The Classical Review"[A] beautifully written book, based on substantial and thorough research. . . . Moving away from the “Orientalizing” paradigm, Arrington succeeds in bringing to the forefront artists, immigrants, and multicultural communities, while challenging the elite connotations of the Proto-Attic pottery. This book, well produced and richly illustrated, is a positive contribution to the literature on seventh-century BCE Attica for students and scholars alike."
---Vicky Vlachou, American Journal of Archaeology"[F]ascinating and ground-breaking. . . . [
Athens at the Margins] is an intelligent, very well written, and well-presented book."
---Conor Trainor, Sehepunkte
