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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Maps -- Figures -- Documents -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Timeline -- 1: The Practice of History -- The Lelantine War -- The Lelantine War Deconstructed -- What is History? -- History as Literature -- Method and Theory -- Further Reading -- 2: Sources, Evidence, Dates -- Evaluating Sources -- Dating Archaic Poets -- Non-Literary Evidence -- Ancient Chronography -- Archaeological Dating -- Further Reading -- 3: The End of the Mycenaean World and its Aftermath -- Mycenaean Greece -- Gauging the Historicity of the Dorian Migration -- Alternative Explanations -- The Loss and Recovery of Writing -- Whose Dark Age? -- Further reading -- 4: Communities of Place -- Defining the Polis -- The Urban Aspect of the Polis: Houses, Graves, and Walls -- Political and Economic Functions -- Cultic Communities -- Polis and Ethnos -- Further Reading -- 5: New Homes Across the Seas -- On the Move -- The Credibility of Colonial Foundation Stories -- Pots and Peoples -- A Spartan Foundation? Taras, Phalanthos, and the Partheniai -- Hunger or Greed? -- Further Reading -- 6: The Changing Nature of Authority -- Charting the Genesis of the State -- Kings or "Big-Men"? -- The Emergence of an Aristocracy -- Laws and Institutions -- The Return of the "Big-Man" -- Excursus I: A Cautionary Tale: Pheidon of Argos -- 7: Fighting for the Fatherland -- A Hoplite Revolution? -- Some More Equal Than Others -- Conquest, Territory, and Exploitation -- Excursus II: Archaeological Gaps: Attica and Crete -- 8: Defining the Political Community -- Looking to the End -- The Role of the Dêmos and the Great Rhetra -- Drawing Boundaries -- Land, Labor, and the Crisis in Attica -- The "Second Sex" -- Excursus III: Evaluating the Spartan Mirage -- 9: The City of Theseus -- The End of the Tyranny -- The Birth of Democracy?.
The Unification of Attica -- Theseus: Democrat or Autocrat? -- The (A)typicality of Athens -- Further Reading -- 10: Making a Living -- Conceptualizing Ancient Economic Activity -- A Peasant Economy? -- Plying the Seas -- The Introduction of Coinage -- Excursus IV: The Rise of Persia and the Invasions of Greece -- 11: Imagining Greece -- "Greek" Culture: Unity and Diversity -- Greeks and Others: The External Dimension -- The Emergence of Panhellenism: The Internal Dimension -- The Invention of the Barbarian -- Further Reading -- 12: Writing the History of Archaic Greece -- The First Sacred War: Fact or Fiction? -- The Limits of Narrative History -- Dividing up Time and Space -- Further Reading -- Abbreviations and Glossary of Literary Sources -- Works Cited in the Further Reading -- Guide to Electronic Resources -- General Websites -- Bibliographic Databases -- Primary Sources Online -- Archaeological Resources -- Index.
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A history of the archaic Greek world, ca. 1200-479 BCE [[electronic resource] /] / Jonathan M. Hall
