03151oam 2200577I 450 991078373020332120230617002606.01-134-45097-41-134-45098-21-280-01992-197866100199220-203-49108-410.4324/9780203491089 (CKB)1000000000247866(EBL)182380(OCoLC)230743512(SSID)ssj0000289076(PQKBManifestationID)11207999(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289076(PQKBWorkID)10401474(PQKB)10972173(MiAaPQ)EBC182380(Au-PeEL)EBL182380(CaPaEBR)ebr10098800(CaONFJC)MIL1992(EXLCZ)99100000000024786620180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArchaic Eretria a political and social history from the earliest times to 490 BC /Keith G. WalkerLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (361 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-51853-9 0-415-28552-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-323) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Documentation and conventions; Acknowledgements; The geography of Euboia and the Eretrias; Prehistory, mythology and cult: the earliest inhabitants of Euboia from the late Neolithic Age to the end of the Mycenaean Age; Old Eretria (Lefkandi) during the Dark Ages and early Iron Age (c. 1050 to c. 750); Eretria from c. 825 to c. 650; Eretria: its history in the wider Greek world during the seventh and early sixth centuries; Eretria: emergent 'great power' of the mid-sixth century; The tyranny of Diagoras (c. 538 509)The Eretrian democracy (c. 509 490)Eretria in the 490s; Epilogue; Chronological tables and notes; Minoan notes; The Kypselidai, Theognis and the low chronology; The source of Strabo's description of the Amarynthos stele (10, 1, 10, c. 448); Corinth in central Greece (519 506); Index locorum; General index; Index of authorsThis book presents for the first time a history of Eretria during the Archaic Era, the city's most notable period of political importance and Keith Walker examines all the major elements of the city's success.One of the key factors explored is Eretria's role as a pioneer coloniser in both the Levant and the West - its early Aegaen 'island empire' anticipates that of Athens by more than a century, and Eretrian shipping and trade was similarly widespread.Eretria's major, indeed dominant, role in the events of central Greece in the last half of the sixth century, and in the eventEretria (Extinct city)History938/.4Walker Keith G.1938,282596FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910783730203321Archaic Eretria668993UNINA