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The Land of Ionia Alan M. Greaves (University of Liverpool, UK)

The Land of Ionia By Alan M. Greaves (University of Liverpool, UK)

The Land of Ionia by Alan M. Greaves (University of Liverpool, UK)


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During the formative years of the archaic period, Ionia was one of the most important regions of the ancient world; however, Ionia s local identity has often been overlooked in scholarly works. This long overdue study of Archaic Ionia seeks to redress this omission.

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The Land of Ionia: Society and Economy in the Archaic Period by Alan M. Greaves (University of Liverpool, UK)

Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people.
  • Seeks to balance the Greek and Anatolian cultural influences at work in Ionia in this important period of its history (700BC to the Battle of Lade in 494BC)
  • Organised thematically, covering landscape, economy, cities, colonisation, warfare, cult, and art
  • Accesses German and Turkish scholarship, presenting a useful point of entry to the published literature for academics and students

About Alan M. Greaves (University of Liverpool, UK)

Alan Greaves is Lecturer in Archaeology at The University of Liverpool. He is the author of Miletos: A History (2002) and the editor of the volume Transanatolia (2007). He has also written numerous articles on Bronze Age-Iron Age archaeology in Turkey, Ionia, and Greek Colonization.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations viii

List of tables x

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiv

Prologue xvi

1 FINDING IONIA 1

Introduction 1

The Source Materials 2

Excavation and Publication 22

Conclusions 26

2 CONSTRUCTING CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGIES OF IONIA 27

Introduction 27

Traditional Approaches to Classical Archaeology in Ionia 28

The German and Turkish Schools of Archaeology 32

Annaliste Perspectives on Archaeology 36

A New Approach to the Land of Ionia 39

Conclusions 43

3 A DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE 45

Introduction 45

Ionia's Geographical Zones 46

Landscape Dynamism 57

The Ionian Landscape and Ionian Identity 65

Conclusions 67

4 THE WEALTH OF IONIA 69

Introduction 69

Modes of Primary Production 71

Modes of Processing 79

Modes of Exchange 84

Ionia and World Systems 89

Conclusions 91

5 THE CITIES OF IONIA 95

Introduction 95

A Brief Survey of the Ionian Cities 96

Other Settlements in Ionia 107

The Size and Distribution of Poleis within Ionia 110

Francois de Polignac in Ionia 112

The City and Ionian Identity 115

Conclusions 118

6 THE IONIANS OVERSEAS 120

Introduction 120

Source Materials 121

Interpreting the Evidence 129

Colonial Interactions 131

Models of Ionian Colonization 137

Conclusions 143

7 THE IONIANS AT WAR 145

Introduction 145

Geographical Settings 147

Archaeological Contexts and Materials 148

Literary Sources 154

Discussion: Issues in Source Materials 156

The Fortification of Ionia 156

Naval Warfare 164

Mercenaries 166

Conclusions 168

8 CULTS OF IONIA 171

Introduction 171

Geographical Evidence 172

Archaeological Evidence 174

Contents vii

Literary and Epigraphic Evidence 179

Discussion of Source Materials 180

The Sacred Ways of Ionia 180

Foreign Influences on Ionian Cult 193

Burial Practices in Ionia 197

Conclusions 199

9 THE ORNAMENTS OF IONIA 201

Introduction 201

Art and Landscape 203

Ionia's Lost Art Treasures 203

Art and Literature 207

Connoisseurship of Ionian Pottery 207

Reading Ionian Art 214

Conclusions 218

10 WHO WERE THE IONIANS? 219

Introduction 219

Herodotos' Ionia 219

The Myth of the Ionian Migration 222

Ionian Identity and Archaeology 225

Conclusions 227

Epilogue 231

Glossary of ancient Greek [and modern Turkish] terms used in the text 233

Bibliography 235

Index 255

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NLS9781119025566
9781119025566
1119025567
The Land of Ionia: Society and Economy in the Archaic Period by Alan M. Greaves (University of Liverpool, UK)
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2015-07-03
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