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

Forsideomslag
John Wiley & Sons, 19. aug. 2013 - 400 sider

A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE.

  • Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections, expanded geographical coverage, a guide to electronic resources, and more illustrations
  • Takes a critical and analytical look at evidence about the history of the archaic Greek World
  • Involves the reader in the practice of history by questioning and reevaluating conventional beliefs
  • Casts new light on traditional themes such as the rise of the city-state, citizen militias, and the origins of egalitarianism
  • Provides a wealth of archaeological evidence, in a number of different specialties, including ceramics, architecture, and mortuary studies
 

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Communities of Place
68
New Homes Across the Seas
96
The Changing Nature of Authority
126
Pheidon of Argos
154
in the Argive agora
163
Fighting for the Fatherland
165
Tyrtaeus fr 10
187
Attica and Crete
190
Making a Living
260
Hesiod WD 24851 25662
273
The Rise of Persia and the Invasions of Greece
282
127 3
283
Imagining Greece
290
Ephorus fr 115 Strabo 8 3 33
295
Writing the History of Archaic Greece
312
Abbreviations and Glossary of Literary Sources
326

Antiochus fr 13 and Ephorus fr
216
Evaluating the Spartan Mirage
227
The City of Theseus
235
Guide to Electronic Resources
339
3
352
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Om forfatteren (2013)

Jonathan M. Hall is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Departments of History and Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (1997), Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (2002), and Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian (2013).

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