The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World
Cartledge, Paul / Christesen, Paul
The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1, 000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers twenty-one detailed studies of key sites from across the Greek world between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE--a crucial period when much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek cul...