Ancient Crete : from successful collapse to democracy's alternatives, twelfth to fifth centuries BC / Saro Wallace.
̀€Ancient Greece', with its associations of citystates, democratic governance, and iconic material culture, can no longer be envisaged as a uniform geographical or historical entity. The Classical city-states of Crete differed considerably in culture, history, and governance from those of centra...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2010.
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| Summary: | ̀€Ancient Greece', with its associations of citystates, democratic governance, and iconic material culture, can no longer be envisaged as a uniform geographical or historical entity. The Classical city-states of Crete differed considerably in culture, history, and governance from those of central Greece. In this book, Saro Wallace reaches back into Crete's prehistory, covering the latest Bronze Age through the Archaic periods, to find out why. She emphasizes the roles of landscape, external contacts, social identity construction, and historical consciousness in producing this difference, bringing together the wealth of new archaeological evidence available from the island with a variety of ancient text sources to produce a vivid and up-to-date picture of this momentous period in Crete's history. -- Until 2009 Saro Wallace was Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Reading having previously held lectureships at the Universities of Bristol and Cardiff. A recipient of a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and of regular grants from the British Academy and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, she has published many papers and reviews in the field of Bronze to Iron Age Greece. She currently directs excavations at the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age mountaintop site of Karfi, Crete. --Book Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 450 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780521112048 (hbk.) 0521112044 (hbk.) |