Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto / Joseph Coleman Carter.
2006
DG70.M52 C373 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto / Joseph Coleman Carter.
Author
Carter, Joseph Coleman.
ISBN
0472114778 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472114771 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472114771 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, ©2006.
Language
English
Description
xxviii, 287 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
9780472114771
Call Number
DG70.M52 C373 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
937/.7
Summary
"Though the ancient Greeks are generally thought to have been city dwellers, with a primarily urban culture, the polis also included a sizable agricultural territory where farmers worked and lived to produce the means of subsistence for the urban population, as well as a surplus for trade. Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto explores one of the earliest and most comprehensive archaeological explorations of these "other Greeks."" "This book stems from a Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture delivered at the University of Michigan in 2000 and is a synthesis of the methods and results of the investigation of the chora of Metapontum carried out by the University of Texas, in collaboration with Italian authorities, over the last twenty-five years. The fieldwork was designed to address fundamental questions about all citizens of the polis, including the ethnic composition of the colonists and their relationship with indigenous populations; land allocation and use; economic changes over time; growth and shrinkage of the population; modes and places of worship; funeral rites; and correlations between rural and urban life."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.
Series
Jerome lectures ; 23rd ser.
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Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto.
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Table of Contents
In search of ancient Greek farmers : an interdisciplinary approach to the rural past
The early settlers
Dividing the chora
Life, worship, death, and rebirth in the chora
Chora, asty, and polis
A Roman epilogue.
The early settlers
Dividing the chora
Life, worship, death, and rebirth in the chora
Chora, asty, and polis
A Roman epilogue.