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A history of the archaic Greek world, ca. 1200-479 BCE / Jonathan M. Hall.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Jonathan M.
- Series:
- Blackwell history of the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- Summary:
- A History of the Archaic Greek World provides thematic coverage of the years 1200ndash; 479 BCE. By revisiting the evidence from the period, with a critical and analytical eye, Jonathan M. Hall gives the reader the opportunity to investigate at first hand this crucial formative period of Greek history. In doing so, this book casts new light on traditional themes such as the rise of the city-state, citizen militias, and the origins of egalitarianism.
- Contents:
- List of Documents xiii
- 1 The Practice of History 1
- The Lelantine War 1
- The Lelantine War Deconstructed 4
- What is History? 8
- History as Literature 11
- Method and Theory 13
- 2 Sources, Evidence, Dates 17
- Evaluating Sources 17
- Dating Archaic Poets 22
- Non-Literary Evidence 27
- Ancient Chronography 30
- Archaeological Dating 34
- 3 The End of the Mycenaean World and its Aftermath 41
- Mycenaean Greece 41
- Gauging the Historicity of the Dorian Migration 43
- Alternative Explanations 51
- The Loss and Recovery of Writing 56
- Whose Dark Age? 59
- 4 Communities of Place 67
- Defining the Polis 67
- The Urban Aspect of the Polis: Houses, Graves, and Walls 70
- Political and Economic Functions 79
- Cultic Communities 83
- Polis and Ethnos 88
- 5 New Homes Across the Seas 93
- On the Move 95
- The Credibility of Colonial Foundation Stories 100
- Pots and Peoples 106
- A Spartan Foundation? Taras, Phalanthos, and the Partheniai 111
- Hunger or Greed? 114
- 6 The Changing Nature of Authority 119
- Charting the Genesis of the State 119
- Kings or "Big-Men"? 120
- The Emergence of an Aristocracy 127
- Laws and Institutions 131
- The Return of the "Big-Man" 137
- Excursus I A Cautionary Tale: Pheidon of Argos 145
- 7 Fighting for the Fatherland 155
- A Hoplite Revolution? 155
- Some More Equal Than Others 163
- Conquest, Territory, and Exploitation 170
- 8 Defining the Political Community 178
- Looking to the End 178
- The Role of the Demos and the Great Rhetra 182
- Drawing Boundaries 187
- Land, Labor, and the Crisis in Attica 191
- The "Second Sex" 197
- Excursus II Evaluating the Spartan Mirage 203
- 9 The City of Theseus 210
- The End of the Tyranny 210
- The Birth of Democracy? 212
- The Unification of Attica 218
- Theseus: Democrat or Autocrat? 226
- The (A)typicality of Athens 230
- 10 Making a Living 235
- Conceptualizing Ancient Economic Activity 235
- A Peasant Economy? 237
- Plying the Seas 242
- The Introduction of Coinage 249
- 11 Imagining Greece 255
- Greeks and Others: The External Dimension 255
- The Rise of Persia and the Invasions of Greece 261
- The Invention of the Barbarian 267
- The Emergence of Panhellenism: The Internal Dimension 270
- 12 Writing the History of Archaic Greece 276
- The First Sacred War: Fact or Fiction? 276
- The Limits of Narrative History 282
- Dividing up Space and Time 285.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0631226672
- 0631226680
- OCLC:
- 63705863
- Publisher Number:
- 9780631226673
- 9780631226680
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