Description
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.
Table of Contents
Note to the ReaderSeries Editors' PrefaceA Note on ChronologySpelling DivergencesAcknowledgementsChapter 1: ArgosJonathan M. HallList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations1.1 Introduction1.2 Sources1.3 Natural Setting1,4 Material Culture1.5 Political History1.6 Legal History1.7 Diplomatic History1.8 Economic History1.9 Familial/Demographic History1.10 Social Customs and Institutions1.11 Religious Customs and Institutions1.12 Cultural History1.13 ConclusionGuide to Further ReadingContributor BiographyGazetteerBibliographyChapter 2: Chalcis and EretriaSylvian Fachard and Samuel VerdanList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations2.1 Introduction2.2 Sources2.3 Natural Setting2,4 Material Culture2.5 Political History2.6 Legal History2.7 Diplomatic History2.8 Economic History2.9 Demographic History2.10 Social Customs and Institutions2.11 Religious Customs and Institutions2.12 Cultural History2.13 ConclusionGuide to Further ReadingContributor BiographiesGazetteerBibliographyChapter 3: Chios, Lesbos, and SamosPaul Christesen, Giuseppe Lentini, Sarah Murray, and Matt SimontonList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations3.1 General IntroductionSection A Chios3.2a Sources3.3a Natural Setting3,4a Material Culture3.5a Political History3.6a Legal History3.7a Diplomatic History3.8a Economic History3.9a Demographic History3.10a Social Customs and Institutions3.11a Religious Customs and Institutions3.12a Cultural HistorySection B: Lesbos3.2b Sources3.3b Natural Setting3,4b Material Culture3.5b Political History3.6b Legal History3.7b Diplomatic History3.8b Economic History3.9b Demographic History3.10b Social Customs and Institutions3.11b Religious Customs and Institutions3.12b Cultural HistorySection C: Samos3.2c Sources3.3v Natural Setting3,4c Material Culture3.5c Political History3.6c Legal History3.7c Diplomatic History3.8c Economic History3.9c Demographic History3.10c Social Customs and Institutions3.11c Religious Customs and Institutions3.12c Cultural History3.13 General ConclusionGuide to Further ReadingContributor BiographiesGazetteerBibliographyChapter 4: CorcyraHans-Joachim Gehrke and Philip SapirsteinList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations4.1 Introduction4.2 Sources4.3 Natural Setting4,4 Material Culture4.5 Political History4.6 Legal History4.7 Diplomatic History4.8 Economic History4.9 Familial and Demographic History4.10 Social Customs and Institutions4.11 Religious Customs and Institutions4.12 Cultural History4.13 ConclusionGuide to Further ReadingContributor BiographiesGazetteerBibliography
