338 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Clear and direct in style, and with more than eighty photographs, maps and plans, Early Greek States Beyond the Polis is a widely relevant study of Greek history, archaeology and society.
Catherine Morgan addresses the different forms of association experienced by early Iron-Age and Archaic Greeks by exploring the archaeological, literary and epigraphical records of central Greece and... Read more
1 Introduction Ethnos and polis, Ethne, ethnicity and tribalism, Archaeology and early Greek ethne, Thessaly, Phokis, East Lokris, Achaia, Arkadia 2 Big sites and place identities 43 Communities of cult 4 Territory, power and the ancestors 5 Beyond the polis: political communities and political identities
Biography
Catherine Morgan, The British School at Athens, University of London Royal Holloway.
'Nothing like this detailed survey of the archaeology of areas selected precisely for not being the heartlands of the classical polis has previously been attempted ... This extraordinary achievement is bound to become a standard work of reference.' - JACT Review
'This is, then, an important and valuable study ... the data and ideas it contains deserve the widest possible circulation.' - Journal of Hellenic Studies
