From Homer to Solon : Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece /

From Homer to Solon : Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece /

The study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the cultural tu...

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Other Authors: Canevaro, Mirko (Editor), Bernhardt, Johannes C. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 454.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

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Call Number: DF77

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Johannes C. Bernhardt and Mirko Canevaro
  • Part 1 Approaching Early Archaic Greece
  • 1 Archaeological Approaches to the Archaic Era
  • John Bintliff
  • 2 A Comparative Approach: Early Archaic Greece and Medieval Iceland
  • Peter Zeller
  • 3 The Homeric Roots of Helotage
  • David M. Lewis
  • 4 Homer and the Vocabulary of Manumission
  • Sara Zanovello
  • 5 'Bought, Not Wed!' Hesiod and the Aristocratic 'Peasants'
  • Jan B. Meister
  • Part 2 Citizens and City-States
  • 6 Hippotrophia as Citizen Behaviour in Archaic Greece
  • Alain Duplouy
  • 7 Putting the Citizen in the Citizen-State: Participating in the Early Cretan polis
  • Gunnar Seelentag
  • 8 Inside and Outside the Community: The Role of Political Thinking in the 'Rise of the Polis '
  • Tanja Itgenshorst
  • 9 What Are Early Greek Laws About? Substance and Procedure in Archaic Statutes, c. 650-450 BC
  • Edward M. Harris and David M. Lewis
  • Part 3 Leaders and Reformers
  • 10 Against the Rules: The 'Plurality of Oikists' and New Perspectives on Greek 'Colonisation'
  • Sebastian Scharff
  • 11 Turannoi in Archaic Greece: A New Phenomenon or a New Name for an Old Phenomenon?
  • James Taylor
  • 12 Tyrannical und Civic Reception of Homer-A Source Problem
  • Lars Hübner
  • 13 Social Mobility vs. Societal Stability: Once Again on the Aims and Meaning of Solon's Reforms
  • Mirko Canevaro
  • 14 A Failed Tyrant? Solon's Place in Athenian History
  • Johannes C. Bernhardt
  • Concluding Remarks: Archaic Greece and the Consciousness of Community
  • Johannes C. Bernhardt
  • Index Locorum
  • Index of Names and Places.