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-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 VI contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Rhodes, Sicyon, Syracuse, Thebes, and Western Sicily. 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
Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsNote to the ReaderChapter 1: RhodesLone Wriedt Sørensen and Adam Schwartzwith the assistance of Thomas Heine NielsenList 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 ReadingGazetteerBibliographyChapter 2: SicyonYiannis LolosList 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 ReadingGazetteerBibliographyChapter 3: SyracuseFranco De Angelis and Valentina MignosaList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations3.1 Introduction3.2 Sources3.3 Natural Setting3,4 Material Culture3.5 Political History3.6 Legal History3.7 Diplomatic History3.8 Economic History3.9 Demographic History3.10 Social Customs and Institutions3.11 Religious Customs and Institutions3.12 Cultural History3.13 General ConclusionGuide to Further ReadingGazetteerBibliographyChapter 4: ThebesHans BeckList 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 ReadingGazetteerBibliographyChapter 5: Western SicilyClemente Marconi and Andrew Farinholt WardList of IllustrationsList of Abbreviations5.1 Introduction5.2 Sources5.3 Natural Setting5,4 Material Culture5.5 Political History5.6 Legal History5.7 Diplomatic History5.8 Economic History5.9 Familial and Demographic History5.10 Social Customs and Institutions5.11 Religious Customs and Institutions5.12 Cultural History5.13 ConclusionGuide to Further ReadingGazetteerBibliography
