From Homer to Solon: Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece PDF
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FromHomertoSolon Mnemosyne Supplements history and archaeology of classical antiquity SeriesEditor JonathanM.Hall(UniversityofChicago) AssociateEditors JanPaulCrielaard(VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam) BenetSalway(UniversityCollegeLondon) volume 454 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/mns‑haca From Homer to Solon ContinuityandChangeinArchaicGreece Editedby JohannesC.Bernhardt MirkoCanevaro leiden | boston Coverillustration:Homer(Inv.6023)andSolon(Inv.6143)byconcessionoftheMinistryofCulture– NationalArchaeologicalMuseumofNaples–photosbyGiorgioAlbano LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Bernhardt,JohannesChristian,editor.|Canevaro,Mirko,editor. Title:FromHomertoSolon:continuityandchangeinarchaicGreece/editedby JohannesC.Bernhardt,MirkoCanevaro. Othertitles:ContinuityandchangeinarchaicGreeceDescription:Leiden;Boston :Brill,[2022]|Series:Mnemosynesupplements,2352-8656;vol454| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 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Contents Preface vii NotesonContributors viii Introduction 1 JohannesC.BernhardtandMirkoCanevaro part 1 ApproachingEarlyArchaicGreece 1 ArchaeologicalApproachestotheArchaicEra 29 JohnBintliff 2 AComparativeApproach:EarlyArchaicGreeceandMedieval Iceland 37 PeterZeller 3 TheHomericRootsofHelotage 64 DavidM.Lewis 4 HomerandtheVocabularyofManumission 93 SaraZanovello 5 ‘Bought,NotWed!’HesiodandtheAristocratic‘Peasants’ 115 JanB.Meister part 2 CitizensandCity-States 6 HippotrophiaasCitizenBehaviourinArchaicGreece 139 AlainDuplouy 7 PuttingtheCitizenintheCitizen-State:ParticipatingintheEarlyCretan polis 162 GunnarSeelentag vi contents 8 InsideandOutsidetheCommunity:TheRoleofPoliticalThinkingin the‘Riseofthepolis’ 203 TanjaItgenshorst 9 WhatAreEarlyGreekLawsAbout?SubstanceandProcedureinArchaic Statutes,c.650–450bc 227 EdwardM.HarrisandDavidM.Lewis part 3 LeadersandReformers 10 AgainsttheRules:ThePluralityofOikistsandNewPerspectiveson Greek‘Colonisation’ 265 SebastianScharff 11 TurannoiinArchaicGreece:ANewPhenomenonoraNewNameforan OldPhenomenon? 301 JamesTaylor 12 TyrannicalandCivicReceptionofHomer—AProblemofSources 330 LarsHübner 13 SocialMobilityvs.SocietalStability:OnceAgainontheAimsand MeaningofSolon’sReforms 363 MirkoCanevaro 14 AFailedTyrant?Solon’sPlaceinAthenianHistory 414 JohannesC.Bernhardt ConcludingRemarks:ArchaicGreeceandtheConsciousnessof Community 462 JohannesC.Bernhardt IndexLocorum 471 IndexofNamesandPlaces 487 Preface This volume stems from the panel ‘Mass, Elite, and the Order of the Polis in ArchaicGreece’organizedinJune2014bytheeditorsaspartoftheCelticCon- ferenceinClassicsheldattheUniversityofEdinburgh.Itwasaverysuccessful panel,inwhichlinksandcommoninterestsamongtheparticipantssparked importantdiscussionaboutArchaicGreece.Twooriginallyplannedpapersby OlivierMariaudonthesocialhistoryoftheIoniancitiesandbyAdamRabinow- itzonthelate-Archaicsymposiumcouldunfortunatelynotbeincludedinthe publicationduetoothercommitments.Aswellaspapersdeliveredduringthe courseof thatpanel,thevolumefeaturesadditionalpapersgatheredthrough widerdialoguewithotherconferenceparticipants(DavidM.Lewis,SaraZan- ovello) who joined in the discussion, and additional commissioned papers (LarsHübner,SebastianScharff,PeterZeller).Theresultingcollectionofschol- arsisremarkablyinternational,andthevolumeattempts,throughafocused explorationofspecificissues,tobringtogetherdevelopmentsinscholarlytradi- tions(British,French,German,Italian)thathavenotalwayssucceededincreat- ingameaningfuldialogueaboutthehistoryofArchaicGreece.Duetotheaddi- tionofnewcontributions,adifferentfocusthanthatoftheconferenceseemed appropriateforthestructuringofthevolumeandledtothepresenttitle‘From Homer to Solon. Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece’. In conclusion, thereremainsonlythepleasantdutyofthankingvariouspeople:AntonPow- ell,whounfortunatelypassedawayinthemeantimeandwillbesorelymissed byallresearchersonArchaicGreece;DouglasCairnsforacceptingouroriginal proposalandincludingourpanelintheprogrammeoftheCelticConferencein Classics;AliceRaeforherinvaluablehelpinpreparingthemanuscriptandfor editingthelanguageofseveralpapers;theanonymousreviewers,whoprovided mostvaluableadviceonhowbesttofinalisethemanuscript;AlbertoEsufor preparing the indices; and, above all, the participants in the conference and thecontributorstothisvolumefortheirpatiencethroughoutthepublication process.Finally,wewanttothankChristianMann—itwasthankstohimthat theeditorsofthisvolumefirstmet,nowalmostadecadeago,andstarteddis- cussingallthingsGreek(andArchaicinparticular),andthisvolume,likethe conferencefromwhichitoriginates,istheproductofanongoingdialoguethat startedinMannheimunderhistutelage. Notes on Contributors JohannesC.Bernhardt PhD2012attheUniversityofFreiburg,isanancienthistoriananddigitalman- ageratBadenStateMuseumKarlsruhe.HehaspublishedonHellenistichistory andmuseumstudies,includingDieJüdischeRevolution(DeGruyter2018). JohnBintliff is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author,amongothers,ofTheCompleteArchaeologyofGreece(Wiley-Blackwell 2012)andTheDeathofArchaeologicalTheory?(Oxbow2011). MirkoCanevaro isProfessorofGreekHistoryattheUniversityofEdinburgh.Hehaspublished extensively on the history of the Greek polis, particularly on Demosthenes and Athens (oup 2013, De Gruyter 2016) and Aristotle’s Politics (L’Erma di Bretschneider2014,2022). AlainDuplouy isReaderinGreekarchaeologyattheUniversitéParis1Panthéon-Sorbonne.He haspublishedextensivelyonpre-Classicalelites,citizenship,andthemaking oftheGreekcity(LesBellesLettres2006,2019;oup2018). EdwardM.Harris isEmeritusProfessorofAncientHistoryatDurhamUniversity.Heistheauthor ofAeschinesandAthenianPolitics(oup1995),DemocracyandtheRuleofLawin ClassicalAthens(cup2006),andTheRuleofLawinActioninDemocraticAthens (oup2013). LarsHübner PhD2018attheUniversityofHamburg,isanancienthistorianandhighschool teacher at Margaretha Rothe Gymnasium Hamburg. He has published on Archaic Homeric reception and intentional history, including Homerimkul- turellenGedächtnis(Steiner2019). TanjaItgenshorst isProfessorofAncientHistoryattheUniversityofFribourg(Switzerland).She has published on the Roman Republic (particularly on the Roman triumph) notes on contributors ix andArchaicGreece(e.g.onpoliticalthought:DenkerundGemeinschaft,Schön- ingh2014). DavidM.Lewis is Lecturer in Greek History and Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He works on ancient slavery and ancient Greek labour history and is author of GreekSlaveSystemsintheirEasternMediterraneanContext,c.800–146bc(oup 2018). JanB.Meister is snsf Eccellenza Professor at the University of Bern. After his dissertation ontheRomanemperor’sbody(Steiner2012)herecentlypublishedhissecond bookonelitesandconceptsofnobilityinArchaicandClassicalGreece(Steiner 2020). SebastianScharff isanancienthistorianatMünsterUniversity.Hehaspublishedoninterstate relations in Greek antiquity (Steiner 2016) and the cultural history of Greek athletics(Steiner2016,cupforthcoming2022). GunnarSeelentag isProfessorofAncientHistoryattheLeibnizUniversityHannover.Hespecial- izesinArchaicandEarlyClassicalGreeceaswellastheRomanPrincipateof thefirsttwocenturies.Amonghisrecentpublicationsisaneditedvolumeon competitionandinstitutionalisationinArchaicGreece(Steiner2020). JamesTaylor receivedhisPhDfromDurhamUniversityin2017,specialisinginArchaicGreek societyandthephenomenonoftyrannis.Henowteacheshistoryataschoolin Hertfordshire,England. SaraZanovello isCPDResearchManageroftheLawSocietyofScotland.Sheholdsajoint-PhD fromtheUniversitiesofPadova(LawSchool)andEdinburgh(Classics).Sheis authorof FromSlavetoFree.ALegalPerspectiveonGreekManumission(Ediz- ionidell’Orso2021). PeterZeller is Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen. His doctoral thesis was abouttheearlyperiodof ArchaicGreece(VerlagAntike2020).Nowhismain fieldofresearchistheclimatehistoryofGreekandRomanantiquity.
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