The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Volume I: Argos to Corcyra

Paul Cartledge editor Paul Christesen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:29th Aug '24

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World cover

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-two 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.

An essential framework forms a useful structure for facilitating comparison between sites and commensurate analysis and is accompanied by a critical, focused bibliography. The design of the overall work is aimed at experts but remains accessible to a wider audience. This volume reveals a surprising variety between the social customs and institutions of the various poleis. The detailed site descriptions are a particular strength, fixing each polis geographically and materially in readers' minds.... Highly recommended. * Choice *

ISBN: 9780199383597

Dimensions: 235mm x 165mm x 37mm

Weight: 1238g

656 pages