Archaic Eretria : a political and social history from the earliest times to 490 BC / / Keith G. Walker

• Autore: Walker Keith G. <1938, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 938/.4
• Soggetto geografico: Eretria (Extinct city) History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-323) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 authors
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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 event
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaic Eretria
• ISBN: 1-134-45097-4; 1-134-45098-2; 1-280-01992-1; 9786610019922; 0-203-49108-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783730203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II