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The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. Nonetheless, despite their dispersal and diversity, Greek communities were bound together by a network of commercial, cultural, diplomatic, and military ties and shared important commonalities, most notably language and religion.The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, a collaborative effort by more than forty eminent scholars, offers twenty-one detailed and comprehensive studies of key sites from across the Greek world in the period between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE. During that period, Greeks confronted a series of demographic, political, social, and economic challenges and generated an array of responses that transformed the ways in which they lived, worked, and interacted. Much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture--such as democracy, stone temples, and nude athletics--first developed during the Archaic period.The series is organized alphabetically by polis. Volume I contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Argos, Chalcis and Eretria, Chios-Lesbos-Samos, and Corcyra. Together with the other volumes in the series, the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we understand a crucial era in antiquity.

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Author:   Paul Cartledge (Inaugural A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Inaugural A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, University of Cambridge) ,  Paul Christesen (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.238kg
ISBN:  

9780199383597

ISBN 10:   0199383596
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   29 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Note to the Reader Series Editors' Preface A Note on Chronology Spelling Divergences Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Argos Jonathan M. Hall List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Sources 1.3 Natural Setting 1,4 Material Culture 1.5 Political History 1.6 Legal History 1.7 Diplomatic History 1.8 Economic History 1.9 Familial/Demographic History 1.10 Social Customs and Institutions 1.11 Religious Customs and Institutions 1.12 Cultural History 1.13 Conclusion Guide to Further Reading Contributor Biography Gazetteer Bibliography Chapter 2: Chalcis and Eretria Sylvian Fachard and Samuel Verdan List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Sources 2.3 Natural Setting 2,4 Material Culture 2.5 Political History 2.6 Legal History 2.7 Diplomatic History 2.8 Economic History 2.9 Demographic History 2.10 Social Customs and Institutions 2.11 Religious Customs and Institutions 2.12 Cultural History 2.13 Conclusion Guide to Further Reading Contributor Biographies Gazetteer Bibliography Chapter 3: Chios, Lesbos, and Samos Paul Christesen, Giuseppe Lentini, Sarah Murray, and Matt Simonton List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 3.1 General Introduction Section A Chios 3.2a Sources 3.3a Natural Setting 3,4a Material Culture 3.5a Political History 3.6a Legal History 3.7a Diplomatic History 3.8a Economic History 3.9a Demographic History 3.10a Social Customs and Institutions 3.11a Religious Customs and Institutions 3.12a Cultural History Section B: Lesbos 3.2b Sources 3.3b Natural Setting 3,4b Material Culture 3.5b Political History 3.6b Legal History 3.7b Diplomatic History 3.8b Economic History 3.9b Demographic History 3.10b Social Customs and Institutions 3.11b Religious Customs and Institutions 3.12b Cultural History Section C: Samos 3.2c Sources 3.3v Natural Setting 3,4c Material Culture 3.5c Political History 3.6c Legal History 3.7c Diplomatic History 3.8c Economic History 3.9c Demographic History 3.10c Social Customs and Institutions 3.11c Religious Customs and Institutions 3.12c Cultural History 3.13 General Conclusion Guide to Further Reading Contributor Biographies Gazetteer Bibliography Chapter 4: Corcyra Hans-Joachim Gehrke and Philip Sapirstein List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Sources 4.3 Natural Setting 4,4 Material Culture 4.5 Political History 4.6 Legal History 4.7 Diplomatic History 4.8 Economic History 4.9 Familial and Demographic History 4.10 Social Customs and Institutions 4.11 Religious Customs and Institutions 4.12 Cultural History 4.13 Conclusion Guide to Further Reading Contributor Biographies Gazetteer Bibliography

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Paul CartledgeÂis A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books areÂDemocracy: A LifeÂandÂThebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece. Paul Christesen is William R. Kenan Professor of Ancient Greek History, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College. He is the author of three books, including most recentlyÂA New Reading of the Damonon Stele (2019).

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