A Companion to Archaic Greece

• Author(s): Kurt A. Raaflaub, Hans van Wees,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 800
• ISBN_10: 1118556658
  ISBN_13: 9781118556658
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / Greece , History / General , History / Ancient / General ,

Description:... A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period.

• 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