Geometric Greece

Coldstream, J. N.

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“…This quickening of development has been often called the eight century ‚renaissance' (Cold stream [1977] 107ff; Hägg [1983]; Snodgrass [2000] 416-428; Bintliff [2012] 227) or ‚revolution' (Snodgrass [1980] 15-84; Morris [2009]; see Whitley [2001] 98-101). 29 On the Dipylon graves see Coldstream (1977) 109-114;Hurwit (1985) 93-106; Morris (2000) 297; Whitley (1991) 138-142; on the Argive graves below, with note 204. On the growth of the 8 th century aristocratic display see Murray (1980) 38-56; Morris (1987) especially 183-196;id.…”

Section: The Implications Of the Archaeological Evidencementioning

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Basileus, tyrannosand polis. The Dynamics of Monarchy in Early Greece

Kõiv¹

2016

Klio

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The article scrutinizes the development of the forms of leadership in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece, questioning the traditional view that per sonal leadership as described in the Homeric epics (the ‚Homeric basileia') was the rule during the Early Iron Age, but was replaced in the Archaic period by col lective aristocracies, and by tyrannies as a principally new kind of monarchy. The article questions the strict distinction between the ‚constitutional' forms of government like basileia and oligarchy, and tyrannis as an illegal break of the con stitutional order. The Early Iron Age archaeology supplies no evidence for institu tionalised and permanent personal leadership, and the Homeric epic, presenting a controversial vision of an ostensibly distant past, cannot be accepted as a reli able guide to the sociopolitical order of the Early Iron Age. The terms basileus and tyrannos were used largely synonymously until ca 400, demonstrating that the Archaic Greeks did not distinguish between legitimate basileia and illegal tyrannis in their contemporary world. The evidence, including the halflegendary accounts concerning particular poleis, suggests that the more or less firmly established monarchies emerged from the eighth century onwards. On the other hand, it infers constant tensions between competing elite groups striving for power, and the consequent fluctuation of the forms of government in the Archaic. The situation could have been similar during the Early Iron Age, which suggests that Early Iron Age Greeks were familiar with both collective and personal lead ership. The emergence of tyrannies and collectively governed poleis can be seen as varying, alternative, ways of polity formation resulting from the quickening development and growing tensions from the eighth century onwards; the legiti macy of both depended on local circumstances. Tyranny appears not as a break of established aristocratic order, but as the monarchic form of elite leadership; the legitimacy of both depended on local circumstances. Tyranny appears as the monarchic form of elite leadership in the early polis, which proved, however, unaccept able in the long term as personal rule became increasingly regarded as an undesirable negation of consensual order.

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Section: The Implications Of the Archaeological Evidencementioning

confidence: 97%

Basileus, tyrannosand polis. The Dynamics of Monarchy in Early Greece

Kõiv¹

2016

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“…were the first to become wealthy (Pallottino, 1975); those controlling trade along the Tiber followed (Barker and Rasmussen, 1998;Haynes, 2000). The seaward location permitted these settlements to be middlemen (including piracy, according to ancient Greek historians) in the lucrative iron trade initiated about 750 BC by the first Euboean Greek settlement of Pithecusae (and then Cumae) in Campania (Coldstream, 2003;Ridgway and Ridgway, 1984). The main sources of iron were the hematite deposits along the eastern shore of Elba (Benvenuti et al, 2004).…”

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“…It is interesting that Villanovan influence in inland Campania was greater than that of Euboean Greek colonies headquartered nearby on Ischia (and then at Cumae). These colonies, already started by about 750 B.C.E., were focused more on the iron deposits of Elba far to the north, and their contacts with neighboring tribes in Campania were at first minimal, perhaps based largely on marital possibilities (Fredericksen, 1979;Ridgway and Ridgway, 1984;Coldstream, 2003). Greek cultural influence to the north in Etruria, however, was the catalyst in the evolution of Villanovan to Etruscan culture (Pallottino, 1975;Haynes, 2000).…”

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Geologic aspects of ancient Villanovan settlement distributions in central Italy

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2015

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“…Es el momento de mayor auge, cuando la nueva ciudad de Eretria alcanza su mayor tamaño, cuando se construye el Hecatonpedón de Apolo Dafnéforo. cuando las tumbas de determinados representantes de grupos sociales dominantes, por ejemplo en la necrópolis de la Puerta Oeste de Eretria (Bérard, 1970), muestran una gran concentración de riqueza y una exhibición y consumo ostentoso de objetos de prestigio, cuando en esas mismas tumbas aparecen importaciones orientales -cerámica chipriota, escarabeos fenicios, calderos orientales-, cuando las producciones cerámicas eubeas, especialmente los escifos de pájaros, influidas por el estilo ático y el corintio (imitaciones de cotilas protocorintias), se difunden en gran cantidad y en una gran área, confirmando la vitalidad de sucomercio y de su competitividad comercial, rasgo este último que se traduce en la imitación de las ánforas áticas de aceite SOS (Johnston y Jones, 1978 (Coldstream. 1977).…”

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Comercio Internacional mediterráneo en el siglo VIII a.C.

Bonet

2018

Arch. esp. arqueol.

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RESUMENEl siglo v111 a.C. es el momcn10 de la recuperación. por primera vez desde el colapso del sistema a fines de la Edad del Bronce. de un verdadero comercio internacional a gra n escala. cuyos protagonistas más activos serán fenicios y griegos. En este trabajo queremos analizar algunos aspectos de es te fenómeno. desde el Egeo al extremo Occidente. que. a traves de una vas ta red de rutas comerciales. permitió una amplia interacción multinacional. Entendemos así el comeri.:io internacional corno un factor clave en el proceso de cambio económico. social y político de las áreas mediterráneas inmersas en este complejo ((sistema-mundo». SUMMARYThe v1 11 century B.C. saw. for the first time after the breakdown of the system in the Late Bronze Age, thc reviva! of a true intemational trade at a growing scale, especíally protagoni:r.ed by Phoenicians and Greeks. In this article we analyze sorne aspects of this phenomenon, from the Aegean to the Far West, which made possíble. through a vaste network of trading routcs. a large multinatio nal ínteractíon. We understand the international trade as a key factor in the proccss o f economic, social and political changcs ofthe Mcditerranean areas submerged in this complex ((World-sys tcm». INTRODUCCIÓNEstamos asistiendo en estos últimos años a la revítalización de un viejo debate, largamente sostenido y nunca olvidado, pero situado ahora en un pun. to crucial gracias al planteamiento de nuevos modelos teóricos y al avance producido en la investigación arqueológica con la ayuda de nuevos instrumentos de análisis: me refiero al problema de la caracterización de los sistemas económicos de las sociedades antiguas, precapitalistas, el papel del comercio y los intercambios, los mecanismos a través de los cuales se desarrollan, y sus consecuencias en el orden social y político, y, en definitiva. en el proceso histórico del cambio cultural.Superados ya los modelos invasionistas y difusionistas de la Arqueología tradic ional historicista para ex pl icar el cambio cultural, y con las aportaciones teóricas y metodológicas de la Arqueología sistémica (Renfrew. 1969(Renfrew. , 1984, especialmente en lo que se refiere a la valoración de las formas de especialización e intercambio que promueven complejidad, esto es, estratificación social, integración política y especialización institucional, y del sistema de intercambio en el proceso de interacción entre los diferentes subsistemas que conduce al cambio cultural (Schortman y Urban , 1987), nos encontramos hoy ante nuevos enfoques en los que se redimensiona el papel del comercio y de los intercambios bajo una perspectiva mucho más amplia (Me C. Adams, 1974). La valoración de los aspectos sociales, políticos y simbólicos del intercambio es el rasgo predominante de los nuevos enfoques.Por una parte se ofrece hoy una visión más completa. subrayando lo que Melas ( 1991 , 389) llama la «sociología artefactual», que «implica la consideración de dos cuestiones dialécticamente relacionadas: el efecto de la organización socio-económica y política s...

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Geometric Greece

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Basileus, tyrannosand polis. The Dynamics of Monarchy in Early Greece

Basileus, tyrannosand polis. The Dynamics of Monarchy in Early Greece

Geologic aspects of ancient Villanovan settlement distributions in central Italy

Comercio Internacional mediterráneo en el siglo VIII a.C.

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