Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece - Exploring Economic and Political Networks Through Data Modelling

"A new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological material from over 100 years, employing experimental modelling techniques from the digital humanities to reveal new patterns about how Greece's first city-states traded with one another and made alliances"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Economic networks: the transport of heavy freight; 3. Economic networks; commodities and semi-luxuries; 4. Entangled networks: the transfer of technical knowledge; 5. Political networks: expressions of political affiliation; 6. Political networks: state alliance and amphiktyonies; 7. Conclusions.

About the author

MICHAEL LOY is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was Assistant Director of the British School at Athens (2019–2022). As a field archaeologist, he has over ten years of experience working on projects in Greece, Britain and Turkey. He is currently co-director of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (2021–2025).

Summary

A new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological material from over 100 years, employing experimental modelling techniques from the digital humanities to reveal new patterns about how Greece's first city-states traded with one another and made alliances.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Loy, Michael (University of Cambridge) Loy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009343817
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934381-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology