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English
Oxford University Press Inc
05 June 2024
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. Nonetheless, despite their dispersal and diversity, Greek communities were bound together by a network of commercial, cultural, diplomatic, and military ties and shared important commonalities, most notably language and religion.

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, a collaborative effort by more than forty eminent scholars, offers twenty-one detailed and comprehensive studies of key sites from across the Greek world in the period between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE. During that period, Greeks confronted a series of demographic, political, social, and economic challenges and generated an array of responses that transformed the ways in which they lived, worked, and interacted. Much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture--such as democracy, stone temples, and nude athletics--first developed during the Archaic period.

The series is organized alphabetically by polis. Volume I contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Argos, Chalcis and Eretria, Chios-Lesbos-Samos, and Corcyra. Together with the other volumes in the series, the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we understand a crucial era in antiquity.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 165mm,  Spine: 37mm
Weight:   1.238kg
ISBN:   9780199383597
ISBN 10:   0199383596
Series:   Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World
Pages:   656
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Paul CartledgeÂis A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books areÂDemocracy: A LifeÂandÂThebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece. Paul Christesen is William R. Kenan Professor of Ancient Greek History, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College. He is the author of three books, including most recentlyÂA New Reading of the Damonon Stele (2019).

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