Overview

This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify new patterns about Archaic Greece. By modelling trade routes, political alliances, and the formation of personal- and state-networks, the book sheds new light on how exactly the early communities of the Aegean basin were plugged into one another. Returning to the long-debated question of 'what is a polis?', this study also challenges Classical Archaeology more generally: that the discipline has at its fingertips significant datasets that can contribute to substantive historical debate -and that what can be done for the next generation of scholarship is to re-engage with old material in a new way.

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'Loy has done admirable and dogged work in aggregating an immense amount of legacy data into new forms that can reinvigorate old debates and introduce new questions about the development of communities and economies in the Archaic Aegean.' Megan Daniels, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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MICHAEL LOY is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was Assistant Director of the British School at Athens (2019–2022). As a field archaeologist, he has over ten years of experience working on projects in Greece, Britain and Turkey. He is currently co-director of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (2021–2025).

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