A Companion to Archaic Greece

by Raaflaub, Kurt A.; van Wees, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780631230458
• ISBN10: 0631230459
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period. The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic Greece Places Greek society of c.750-480 BCE in its chronological and geographical context Gives equal emphasis to established topics such as tyranny and political reform and newer subjects like gender and ethnicity Combines accounts of historical developments with regional surveys of archaeological evidence and in-depth treatments of selected themes Explores the impact of Eastern and other non-Greek cultures in the development of Greece Uses archaeological and literary evidence to reconstruct broad patterns of social and cultural development

Author Biography

Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence (2005-8) and Director of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University. His recent publications include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell, 2005) and War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2006).

Hans van Wees is Professor of Ancient History at University College London. His publications include Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History (1992) and Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (2004), and he has co-edited four volumes on archaic Greece, war and violence, and Herodotus.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction

Introduction

The Historiography of Archaic Greece

The Mediterranean World in the Early Iron Age

Histories

The Early Iron Age

The Eighth-Century Revolution

The World of Homer and Hesiod

The Tyrants

Sparta

Athens

Greeks and Persians

Regions

Attica

The Aegean

Laconia and Messenia

The Peloponnese

Crete

Northern Greece

The Western Mediterranean

The Black Sea

Themes

Cities

Foundations

States

Charismatic Leaders

Sanctuaries and Festivals

The Economy

Class

Gender and Age

Symposium Culture

The Culture of Competition

Literacy

Intellectual Achievements

War and International Relations

Ethnicity and Cultural Exchange

Epilogue

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