Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State

"This is a fluently written history of ancient Greece seen from the perspective of localism and the origins of the Greek City-State. Much like our own time, from the 8th century BCE until and even beyond its imperial end, the Greek world was constantly expanding and experiencing growing connectivity with the world at large. Conquest, exploration and exchange all grew Greece's global presence and helped develop an expanded world where a need to define and cherish the local would inevitably arise. Beck draws on a breathtaking range of materials: texts, some of them rare, by both well-known and obscure writers; numismatics, visual culture, pottery analysis, landscape and traditional field archaeology. He brings all this together in developing fine-grained case studies about tensions between metropolis and local communities such as Miletus, Ithaca, and rural Attica in relation to Athens and other major centers"--

About the author

Hans Beck is professor and chair of Greek history at the University of Münster, adjunct professor in the faculty of arts at McGill University in Montreal, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of many books, including A Companion to Ancient Greek Government; with Peter Funke, Federalism in Greek Antiquity; and, with Kostas Buraselis and Alex McAuley, Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Beck, Beck Hans
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780226711485
• ISBN: 978-0-226-71148-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology