The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily - Hardcover

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily
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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily - Hardcover

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily - Hardcover

$188.10
$188.10

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by Paul Cartledge (Editor), Paul Christesen (Editor)

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-two 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 VI contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Rhodes, Sicyon, Syracuse, Thebes, and Western Sicily. 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.
ISBN9780199383535
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreHistory, Education, and Arts
FormatHardcover
PublishedMay 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages904
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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