Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early GreeceUniversity of California Press, 12 dec 1997 - 311 pagina's The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry played in this upheaval. Using tools from political and economic anthropology, David Tandy argues that between about 800 and 700 B.C., a great transformation of dominant economic institutions took place involving wrenching adjustments in the way status and wealth were distributed within the Greek communities. Tandy explores the economic organization of preindustrial societies, both ancient and contemporary, to shed light on the Greek experience. He argues that the sudden shift in Greek economic formations led to new social behaviors and to new social structures such as the polis, itself a by-product of economic change. Unraveling the dialectic between the material record and epic poetry, Tandy shows that the epic tradition mirrored these new social behaviors and that it portrayed the stresses that economic change brought to the ancient Aegean world. Tandy brings in comparative evidence from other small-scale communities beset by changes, spotlighting the specific plight of one community, Ascra in Boeotia, on whose behalf Hesiod sang his Works and Days. The result is a lively, moving account of a human dilemma that, many centuries later, is all too familiar. |
Inhoudsopgave
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THE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION | 17 |
More Greeks | 19 |
Snodgrasss Burial Counts | 46 |
Adjustments to Snodgrasss Counts | 51 |
Dedication Patterns on Mt Hymettus | 54 |
Historical Patterns of Growth and the Greek Numbers | 55 |
Early Movements of Goods and of Greeks | 59 |
THE RESPONSES | 139 |
Tools of Exclusion | 141 |
Epic and Other Memories | 166 |
Response from the Periphery | 194 |
Conclusions | 229 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 235 |
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INDEX LOCORUM | 291 |
Structure and Change in Dark Age Greece from the Fall of Mycenae through the Homeric Epics | 84 |
A Great Transformation | 112 |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Warriors Into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece David W. Tandy Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2000 |
Warriors Into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece David W. Tandy Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1997 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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