Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto / Joseph Coleman Carter.

0472114778 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472114771 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, ©2006.

English

xxviii, 287 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.

9780472114771

DG70.M52 C373 2006

937/.7

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.

Jerome lectures ; 23rd ser.

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