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Ancient Crete: From Successful Collapse to Democracy´s Alternatives, Twelfth–Fifth Centuries BC
Saro Wallace
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Description for Ancient Crete: From Successful Collapse to Democracy´s Alternatives, Twelfth–Fifth Centuries BC
hardcover. Examines Crete's prehistory to find out why the classical city states of Crete differed considerably from those of central Greece. Num Pages: 476 pages, 204 b/w illus. 7 colour illus. 11 maps 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1332.
'Ancient Greece' with its associations of city states, 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. It 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 ... Read more
'Ancient Greece' with its associations of city states, 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. It 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
476
Condition
New
Number of Pages
476
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521112048
SKU
V9780521112048
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About Saro Wallace
Saro Wallace is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Reading. A recipient of a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and regular grants from the British Academy and 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Crete: From Successful Collapse to Democracy´s Alternatives, Twelfth–Fifth Centuries BC
'… [an] important book … Essential.' Choice '… useful and comprehensive and will stimulate much discussion.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review 'This book presents a coherent argument and an original synthesis. Wallace's knowledge of the island cannot be equaled.' American Journal of Philology