Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors xii
Preface xx
List of Abbreviations xxiii
Maps xxiv
Part I Introduction 1
1 The Historiography of Archaic Greece 3 John K. Davies
2 The Mediterranean World in the Early Iron Age 22 Carol G. Thomas
Part II Histories 41
3 The Early Iron Age 43 Catherine Morgan
4 The Eighth-century Revolution 64 Ian Morris
5 The World of Homer and Hesiod 81 Christoph Ulf
6 The Tyrants 100 Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp
7 Sparta 117 Massimo Nafissi
8 Athens 138 Michael Stahl and Uwe Walter
9 Greeks and Persians 162 Josef Wiesehöfer
Part III Regions 187
10 Attica: A View from the Sea 189 Sanne Houby-Nielsen
11 The Aegean 212 Alexander Mazarakis Ainian and Iphigenia Leventi
12 Laconia and Messenia 239 Nigel Kennell and Nino Luraghi
13 The Peloponnese 255 Thomas Heine Nielsen and James Roy
14 Crete 273 James Whitley
15 Northern Greece 294 Zosia Halina Archibald
16 The Western Mediterranean 314 Carla M. Antonaccio
17 The Black Sea 330 Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
Part IV Themes 347
18 Cities 349 Jan Paul Crielaard
19 Foundations 373 Irad Malkin
20 States 395 Hans-Joachim Gehrke
21 Charismatic Leaders 411 Robert W. Wallace
22 Sanctuaries and Festivals 427 François de Polignac
23 The Economy 444 Hans van Wees
24 Class 468 Peter W. Rose
25 Gender 483 Lin Foxhall
26 The Culture of the Symposion 508 Oswyn Murray
27 The Culture of Competition 524 Nick Fisher
28 Literacy 542 John-Paul Wilson
29 Intellectual Achievements 564 Kurt A. Raaflaub
30 War and International Relations 585 Henk Singor
31 Ethnicity and Cultural Exchange 604 Jonathan M. Hall
Bibliography 618
Indices 713