Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence (Archaic & Classical Greece) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1914535316 ISBN 13: 9781914535314

Verlag: The Classical Press of Wales, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

The study of archaic Greece (c. 750-480 BC) is being transformed by exciting discoveries and interpretations. In fourteen original studies from a distinguished international cast, this book explores many aspects of a rapidly changing Greek world. Detailed re-interpretation of archaeological material reveals diversity in patterns of settlement, sanctuaries and burial practices, and shows motivations underlying the expanding exchange of goods and the settlement of new communities. Local studies of archaeology and iconography revise our image of the peculiarity of Spartan society and East Greek cult. Texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly-found poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations. And there are new studies of developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent Greek life-style, and the articulation of political thought.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nick Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University. For the Classical Press of Wales he has co-edited with Hans van Wees Archaic Greece (1998), Competition in the Ancient World (2011), and Aristocracy in Antiquity (2015). He is the author of Hybris: A Study in the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece (1992). He has also published numerous articles on Ancient Greek social behaviour.

Hans van Wees is Reader in Ancient History at University College London. He is the author of Status Warriors: War, Violence, and Society in Homer and History, editor of War and Violence in Ancient Greece and joint editor of the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Classical Press of Wales
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1914535316
• ISBN 13: 9781914535314
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Herausgeber: Fisher Nick, Van Wees Hans
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande