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A Companion to Archaic Greece

Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor), Hans van Wees (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-23045-8
Hardcover
792 pages
May 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • 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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