Ancient Greece

Social Structure and Evolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-521-71926-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Case Studies in Early Societies

This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small charts the rise of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations and the unique characteristics of the later classical Greeks through the lens of ancient social structure and complexity theory, opening up new ideas and perspectives on these societies. He argues that Minoan and Mycenaean institutions evolved from elaborate feasting, and that the genesis of Greek colonization was born from structural chaos in the eighth century. Small isolates distinctions between Iron Age Crete and the rest of the Greek world, focusing on important differences in social structure. His book differs from others on Ancient Greece, highlighting the perpetuation of classical Greek social structure into the middle years of the Roman Empire, and concluding with a comparison of the social structure of classical Greece to that of the classical Maya civilization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Small, David B

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Prähistorische Epoche
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. My analytical frame; 2. The Ancient Greek landscape; 3. The Neolithic in Greece; 4. Developments c.3200–2200 BCE; 5. The beginning of change and the evolution of a Koine; 6. Changes in the latter part of the second millennium BCE; 7. The eleventh to eighth centuries: from collapse to created chaos; 8. A brave new world: the new structure and characteristics of its emergence; 9. Developments after the rise of Macedon; 10. The Cretan difference; 11. The sweep of things: the larger picture of the evolution of Ancient Greece; 12. Greece is not alone: the small polity evolutionary characteristics of the ancient Greeks and other past cultures.

Über Autor(innen)

Small, David B
David B. Small is Professor of Archaeology at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. A Fulbright fellow, he has conducted research in Greece, Italy, Israel, Honduras, and the United States.