Archaic Eretria: A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC

by Walker,Keith G.

• ISBN13: 9780415285520
• ISBN10: 0415285526
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first detailed history of one of the most prosperous and important Greek cities of the pre-classical period; Eretria was the moving spirit in Greek resistance to Persia dominance, and a significant overseas colonizer. Keith Walker's stimulating and thoughtful work weaves together evidence from archaeology, philology, textual research, epigraphy and numismatics. It begins by examining the period from the later Neolithic to the early Iron Age. The latter chapters cover the city's rise to prominence in the Archaic era, with skilful reconstruction of the complex alliances and enmities of the Greek cities.

Author Biography

Keith Walker is a Research Associate in the Department of Classics, History and Religion at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Preface	xii
Documentation and conventions	xiv
Acknowledgements	xvi
The geography of Euboia and the Eretrias	1	(25)
Prehistory, mythology and cult: the earliest inhabitants of Euboia from the late Neolithic Age to the end of the Mycenaean Age	26	(47)
Old Eretria (Lefkandi) during the Dark Ages and early Iron Age (c. 1050 to c.750)	73	(17)
Eretria from c. 825 to c. 650	90	(51)
Eretria: its history in the wider Greek world during the seventh and early sixth centuries	141	(42)
Eretria: emergent 'great power' of the mid-sixth century	183	(24)
The tyranny of Diagoras (c. 538--509)	207	(29)
The Eretrian democracy (c. 509--490)	236	(34)
Eretria in the 490s	270	(18)
Epilogue	288	(2)
Appendix 1: Chronological tables and notes	290	(3)
Appendix 2: Minoan notes	293	(2)
Appendix 3: The Kypselidai, Theognis and the low chronology	295	(3)
Appendix 4: The source of Strabo's description of the Amarynthos stele (10, 1, 10, c. 448)	298	(3)
Appendix 5: Corinth in central Greece (519--506)	301	(20)
Index locorum	321	(10)
General index	331	(16)
Index of authors	347