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  Archaic Greece. New approaches and new evidence
edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees
ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-2809-6 ISBN-10: 0-7156-2809-7, hardback, xvi+464 pp., maps, illustns., 1998,
 
The editors: Nick Fisher is the author of Hybris: A Study in the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece. Hans van Wees is author of Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History.

The study of archaic Greece (c. 750-480 BC) is being transformed by exciting discoveries and interpretations. In fourteen original studies from a distinguished international cast, this book explores many aspects of a rapidly changing Greek world. Detailed re-interpretation of archaeological material reveals diversity in patterns of settlement, sanctuaries and burial practices, and shows motivations underlying the expanding exchange of goods and the settlement of new communities. Local studies of archaeology and iconography revise our image of the peculiarity of Spartan society and East Greek cult. Texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly-found poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations. And there are new studies of developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent Greek life-style, and the articulation of political thought.

 
CONTENTS
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction - Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees
PART I: DIVERSITY IN DEVELOPMENT INTERPRETING ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ICONOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE
1. Archaeology and archaic Greek history - Ian Morris
2. Lakonian artistic production and the problem of Spartan austerity - Stephen Hodkinson
3. Sixth-century Lakonian vase-painting: continuities and discontinuities with the Lykourgan ethos - Anton Powell
4. Athena as Ergane and Promachos: the iconography of Athena in archaic east Greece - Alexandra Villing
PART II: INTERPRETING POETRY AND MYTH
5. A historian's headache: how to read Homeric society? - Kurt Raaflaub
6. Homer's enemies: lyric and epic in the seventh century - Andrew Dalby
7. What was in Pandora's box? - Daniel Ogden
8. The new Simonides and heroization at Plataia - Deborah Boedeker
PART III: INTEGRATING THE EVIDENCE. POWER, STATUS, EXCHANGE, AND STATE-FORMATION
9. Early Greek colonization? The nature of Greek settlement in the West - Robin Osborne
10. Towards thalassocracy? Archaic Greek naval developments - Philip de Souza
11. Cargoes of the heart's desire: the character of trade in the archaic Mediterranean world - Lin Foxhall
12. Literacy and lawmaking: the case of archaic Crete - James Whitley
13. Greeks bearing arms: the state, the leisure class, and the display of weapons in archaic Greece - Hans van Wees
14. Writing the history of archaic Greek political thought - Paul Cartledge
Bibliography
Index
 

Greece & Rome 1999, 78-9.

"This collection is sure to stimulate debate about the uses of evidence, the topics to which archaeological material can be applied which archaeological material can be applied, and how to frame questions" C. Higbie, Classical Review 2000, 180-3. "...an enjoyable book, offering us much to learn and to think about. As the editors say, 'Not only does new evidence, material and literary, continue to accumulate, but there is, it appears, no end to the new approaches to be explored.' P.J. Rhodes,