Details

A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE


A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE


Blackwell History of the Ancient World 2. Aufl.

von: Jonathan M. Hall

39,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 08.07.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781118340462
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 400

DRM-geschütztes eBook, Sie benötigen z.B. Adobe Digital Editions und eine Adobe ID zum Lesen.

Beschreibungen

<p><i>A History of the Archaic Greek World</i> offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE.</p> <ul> <li>Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections, expanded geographical coverage, a guide to electronic resources, and more illustrations</li> <li>Takes a critical and analytical look at evidence about the history of the archaic Greek World</li> <li>Involves the reader in the practice of history by questioning and reevaluating conventional beliefs</li> <li>Casts new light on traditional themes such as the rise of the city-state, citizen militias, and the origins of egalitarianism</li> <li>Provides a wealth of archaeological evidence, in a number of different specialties, including ceramics, architecture, and mortuary studies</li> </ul>
<p>List of Maps x</p> <p>List of Figures xi</p> <p>List of Documents xiii</p> <p>Preface xv</p> <p>Preface to the Second Edition xvii</p> <p>Timeline xix</p> <p><b>1 The Practice of History </b><b>1</b></p> <p>The Lelantine War 1</p> <p>The Lelantine War Deconstructed 4</p> <p>What is History? 8</p> <p>History as Literature 11</p> <p>Method and Theory 12</p> <p><b>2 Sources, Evidence, Dates </b><b>16</b></p> <p>Evaluating Sources 16</p> <p>Dating Archaic Poets 21</p> <p>Non-Literary Evidence 26</p> <p>Ancient Chronography 29</p> <p>Archaeological Dating 33</p> <p><b>3 The End of the Mycenaean World and Its Aftermath </b><b>41</b></p> <p>Mycenaean Greece 41</p> <p>Gauging the Historicity of the Dorian Migration 44</p> <p>Alternative Explanations 51</p> <p>The Loss and Recovery of Writing 56</p> <p>Whose Dark Age? 59</p> <p><b>4 Communities of Place </b><b>68</b></p> <p>Defining the <i>Polis </i>68</p> <p>The Urban Aspect of the <i>Polis</i>: Houses, Graves, and Walls 72</p> <p>Political and Economic Functions 81</p> <p>Cultic Communities 85</p> <p><i>Polis </i>and <i>Ethnos </i>90</p> <p><b>5 New Homes Across the Seas </b><b>96</b></p> <p>On the Move 99</p> <p>The Credibility of Colonial Foundation Stories 105</p> <p>Pots and Peoples 111</p> <p>A Spartan Foundation? Taras, Phalanthos, and the Partheniai 116</p> <p>Hunger or Greed? 120</p> <p><b>6 The Changing Nature of Authority </b><b>126</b></p> <p>Charting the Genesis of the State 126</p> <p>Kings or “Big-Men”? 127</p> <p>The Emergence of an Aristocracy 134</p> <p>Laws and Institutions 138</p> <p>The Return of the “Big-Man” 144</p> <p>Excursus I. A Cautionary Tale: Pheidon of Argos 154</p> <p><b>7 Fighting for the Fatherland </b><b>165</b></p> <p>A Hoplite Revolution? 165</p> <p>Some More Equal Than Others 174</p> <p>Conquest, Territory, and Exploitation 181</p> <p>Excursus II. Archaeological Gaps: Attica and Crete 190</p> <p><b>8 Defining the Political Community </b><b>200</b></p> <p>Looking to the End 200</p> <p>The Role of the <i>Dêmos </i>and the Great Rhetra 205</p> <p>Drawing Boundaries 211</p> <p>Land, Labor, and the Crisis in Attica 214</p> <p>The “Second Sex” 220</p> <p>Excursus III. Evaluating the Spartan Mirage 227</p> <p><b>9 The City of Theseus 235</b></p> <p>The End of the Tyranny 235</p> <p>The Birth of Democracy? 238</p> <p>The Unification of Attica 243</p> <p>Theseus: Democrat or Autocrat? 251</p> <p>The (A)typicality of Athens 255</p> <p><b>10 Making a Living </b><b>260</b></p> <p>Conceptualizing Ancient Economic Activity 260</p> <p>A Peasant Economy? 262</p> <p>Plying the Seas 268</p> <p>The Introduction of Coinage 275</p> <p>Excursus IV. The Rise of Persia and the Invasions of Greece 282</p> <p><b>11 Imagining Greece </b><b>290</b></p> <p>“Greek” Culture: Unity and Diversity 290</p> <p>Greeks and Others: The External Dimension 293</p> <p>The Emergence of Panhellenism: The Internal Dimension 301</p> <p>The Invention of the Barbarian 308</p> <p><b>12 Writing the History of Archaic Greece </b><b>312</b></p> <p>The First Sacred War: Fact or Fiction? 312</p> <p>The Limits of Narrative History 317</p> <p>Dividing up Time and Space 320</p> <p>Abbreviations and Glossary of Literary Sources 326</p> <p>Works Cited in the Further Reading 330</p> <p>Guide to Electronic Resources 339</p> <p>Index 342</p>
<p><b>Jonathan M. Hall</b> is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Departments of History and Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of <i>Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity</i> (1997), <i>Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture</i> (2002), and <i>Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian</i> (2013).</p>
<p><i>A History of the Archaic Greek World</i> provides theme-based coverage of the years 1200–479 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, colonization, citizen militias, the origins of egalitarianism, and the emergence of a self-conscious Greek identity.</p> <p>Taking into consideration feedback from the first edition, the author has updated the text and added further material, including two new sections entitled <i>Archaeological Gaps: Attica and Crete</i> and ‘<i>Greek’ Culture: Unity and Diversity</i>; he has increased illustrative material, and included a new guide to electronic resources. In addition, Hall has expanded the geographical coverage of all material considered within the book. The text continues to provide an exceptionally wide range of archaeological evidence across a number of different specialties. The author brings a willingness to question existing notions, which allows the reader to become involved in the practice of history by probing and reevaluating conventional beliefs.</p>
<p>“Breaking news - the Archaic period of ancient Greece is not archaic! The updated and augmented second edition of this thematically inflected history does full justice to an experimental and brilliantly innovative era.” <i>- Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge</i></p> <p>“Informative and clear for the student and the interested non-specialist, this book is full of stimulating observations and questions, from which also the specialist may profit. With its second edition, Jonathan Hall offers a reliable and up-to-date survey of the major developments in society, institutions, and culture in the Greek World and its periphery from the end of the Mycenaean palace administration to the Persian Wars. By operating with a ‘long Archaic Age’, that has its roots in the Late Bronze Age, Jonathan Hall fruitfully challenges the traditional periodization of Greek history.” <i>- Angelos Chaniotis, Institute for Advanced Study</i></p> <p>“Further enriched in its second edition, this book offers a balanced, superbly informed, critical, and lucid discussion of all the major issues that contributed to shaping Greek society and culture in its formative period. Engaging closely with the archaeological evidence, textual sources, and modern scholarship, the author challenges many well-established views and introduces the reader to the evidence as well as the tools, approaches, and methods on which a meaningful reconstruction of the crucial developments in early Greek history can be based. Hall does not present final truths but takes us along on his exciting and sometimes frustrating road to discovery; he stimulates our thinking and helps us penetrate to a deeper level of understanding.” <i>– Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University</i></p>

Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:

King Hammurabi of Babylon
King Hammurabi of Babylon
von: Marc Van De Mieroop
PDF ebook
35,99 €
Magic in the Ancient Greek World
Magic in the Ancient Greek World
von: Derek Collins
PDF ebook
33,99 €
A Companion to Classical Receptions
A Companion to Classical Receptions
von: Lorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray
PDF ebook
44,99 €