A Companion to Archaic Greece (Wiley Companions to the Ancient World)
Language: English
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
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- Title
- A Companion to Archaic Greece (Wiley Companions to the Ancient World)
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- acceptable
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1118451384
- ISBN 13
- 9781118451380
- The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic Greece
- Places Greek society of c.750-480 BCE in its chronological and geographical context
- Gives equal emphasis to established topics such as tyranny and political reform and newer subjects like gender and ethnicity
- Combines accounts of historical developments with regional surveys of archaeological evidence and in-depth treatments of selected themes
- Explores the impact of Eastern and other non-Greek cultures in the development of Greece
- Uses archaeological and literary evidence to reconstruct broad patterns of social and cultural development
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About the Author
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence (2005-8) and Director of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University. His recent publications include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell, 2005) and War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2006).
Hans van Wees is Professor of Ancient History at University College London. His publications include Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History (1992) and Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (2004), and he has co-edited four volumes on archaic Greece, war and violence, and Herodotus.
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