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Author:   Nick Fisher (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Hans van Wees (University College London, UK) ,  Deborah Boedeker ,  etc.
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.943kg
ISBN:  

9780715628096

ISBN 10:   0715628097
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   25 June 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations Introduction - Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees PART I: DIVERSITY IN DEVELOPMENT INTERPRETING ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ICONOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE 1. Archaeology and archaic Greek history - Ian Morris 2. Lakonian artistic production and the problem of Spartan austerity - Stephen Hodkinson 3. Sixth-century Lakonian vase-painting: continuities and discontinuities with the Lykourgan ethos - Anton Powell 4. Athena as Ergane and Promachos: the iconography of Athena in archaic east Greece - Alexandra Villing PART II: INTERPRETING POETRY AND MYTH 5. A historian's headache: how to read Homeric society? - Kurt Raaflaub 6. Homer's enemies: lyric and epic in the seventh century - Andrew Dalby 7. What was in Pandora's box? - Daniel Ogden 8. The new Simonides and heroization at Plataia - Deborah Boedeker PART III: INTEGRATING THE EVIDENCE. POWER, STATUS, EXCHANGE, AND STATE-FORMATION 9. Early Greek colonization? The nature of Greek settlement in the West - Robin Osborne 10. Towards thalassocracy? Archaic Greek naval developments - Philip de Souza 11. Cargoes of the heart's desire: the character of trade in the archaic Mediterranean world - Lin Foxhall 12. Literacy and lawmaking: the case of archaic Crete - James Whitley 13. Greeks bearing arms: the state, the leisure class, and the display of weapons in archaic Greece - Hans van Wees 14. Writing the history of archaic Greek political thought - Paul Cartledge Bibliography Index

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Nick Fisher is the author of Hybris: A Study in the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece. Hans van Wees is the author of Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History.

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