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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hall, Jonathan M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Figures
  • Documents
  • Preface
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Timeline
  • 1: The Practice of History
  • The Lelantine War
  • The Lelantine War Deconstructed
  • What is History?
  • History as Literature
  • Method and Theory
  • Further Reading
  • 2: Sources, Evidence, Dates
  • Evaluating Sources
  • Dating Archaic Poets
  • Non-Literary Evidence
  • Ancient Chronography
  • Archaeological Dating
  • Further Reading
  • 3: The End of the Mycenaean World and its Aftermath
  • Mycenaean Greece
  • Gauging the Historicity of the Dorian Migration
  • Alternative Explanations
  • The Loss and Recovery of Writing
  • Whose Dark Age?
  • Further reading
  • 4: Communities of Place
  • Defining the Polis
  • The Urban Aspect of the Polis: Houses, Graves, and Walls
  • Political and Economic Functions
  • Cultic Communities
  • Polis and Ethnos
  • Further Reading
  • 5: New Homes Across the Seas
  • On the Move
  • The Credibility of Colonial Foundation Stories
  • Pots and Peoples
  • A Spartan Foundation? Taras, Phalanthos, and the Partheniai
  • Hunger or Greed?
  • Further Reading
  • 6: The Changing Nature of Authority
  • Charting the Genesis of the State
  • Kings or "Big-Men"?
  • The Emergence of an Aristocracy
  • Laws and Institutions
  • The Return of the "Big-Man"
  • Excursus I: A Cautionary Tale: Pheidon of Argos
  • 7: Fighting for the Fatherland
  • A Hoplite Revolution?
  • Some More Equal Than Others
  • Conquest, Territory, and Exploitation
  • Excursus II: Archaeological Gaps: Attica and Crete
  • 8: Defining the Political Community
  • Looking to the End
  • The Role of the Dêmos and the Great Rhetra
  • Drawing Boundaries
  • Land, Labor, and the Crisis in Attica
  • The "Second Sex"
  • Excursus III: Evaluating the Spartan Mirage
  • 9: The City of Theseus
  • The End of the Tyranny
  • The Birth of Democracy?
  • The Unification of Attica
  • Theseus: Democrat or Autocrat?
  • The (A)typicality of Athens
  • Further Reading
  • 10: Making a Living
  • Conceptualizing Ancient Economic Activity
  • A Peasant Economy?
  • Plying the Seas
  • The Introduction of Coinage
  • Excursus IV: The Rise of Persia and the Invasions of Greece
  • 11: Imagining Greece
  • "Greek" Culture: Unity and Diversity
  • Greeks and Others: The External Dimension
  • The Emergence of Panhellenism: The Internal Dimension
  • The Invention of the Barbarian
  • Further Reading
  • 12: Writing the History of Archaic Greece
  • The First Sacred War: Fact or Fiction?
  • The Limits of Narrative History
  • Dividing up Time and Space
  • Further Reading
  • Abbreviations and Glossary of Literary Sources
  • Works Cited in the Further Reading
  • Guide to Electronic Resources
  • General Websites
  • Bibliographic Databases
  • Primary Sources Online
  • Archaeological Resources
  • Index

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