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Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence

by Nick Fisher (Editor), Hans van Wees (Editor)

Other authors: Deborah Boedeker (Contributor), Paul Cartledge (Contributor), Andrew Dalby (Contributor), Philip de Souza (Contributor), Lin Foxhall (Contributor)8 more, Stephen Hodkinson (Contributor), Ian Morris (Contributor), Daniel Ogden (Contributor), Robin Osborne (Contributor), Anton Powell (Contributor), Kurt Raaflaub (Contributor), Alexandra Villing (Contributor), James Whitley (Contributor)

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The study of archaic Greece (c. 750-480 BC) is being transformed by exciting discoveries and interpretations. In fourteen original studies from a distinguished international cast, this book explores many aspects of a rapidly changing Greek world. Detailed re-interpretation of archaeological material reveals diversity in patterns of settlement, sanctuaries and burial practices, and shows 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 East Greek cult. Texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly-found poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations. And there are new studies of developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent Greek life-style, and the articulation of political thought.… (more)
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Fisher, NickEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
van Wees, HansEditormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Boedeker, DeborahContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cartledge, PaulContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dalby, AndrewContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
de Souza, PhilipContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Foxhall, LinContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hodkinson, StephenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Morris, IanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Ogden, DanielContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Osborne, RobinContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Powell, AntonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Raaflaub, KurtContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Villing, AlexandraContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Whitley, JamesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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The study of archaic Greece (c. 750-480 BC) is being transformed by exciting discoveries and interpretations. In fourteen original studies from a distinguished international cast, this book explores many aspects of a rapidly changing Greek world. Detailed re-interpretation of archaeological material reveals diversity in patterns of settlement, sanctuaries and burial practices, and shows 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 East Greek cult. Texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly-found poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations. And there are new studies of developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent Greek life-style, and the articulation of political thought.

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