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A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400-146 BC) (Paperback)
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A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400-146 BC) (Paperback)
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A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid
(400-146 BC) is the first systematic study of Late Classical and
Hellenistic rural fortifications in the territories of ancient
Argos and the city-states of the Argolic Akte (northeastern
Peloponnese). Based on one of the largest regional corpora of Greek
fortified sites to date, the volume investigates the function of
rural fortifications by placing them in the context of their
surrounding landscape. This approach - combining 'traditional'
methods of ancient history and landscape archaeology with GIS-based
data analyses - helps to readdress the long-standing tension
between 'military-strategic' and 'non-military' research agendas in
Greek fortification studies, and highlights that Classical and
Hellenistic rural fortifications are neither a priori fortified
farmsteads nor parts of military-strategic networks of territorial
defence. Instead, rural fortifications emerge in this monograph as
multifunctional and multifaceted sites, which open a new window
into different forms of 'formal' and 'informal' conflict in the
ancient countryside and bear witness to a remarkable degree of
local motivation and agency. The study thus demonstrates how
ancient fortifications can provide an unexpected and so far much
underappreciated opportunity for writing local or regional Greek
histories - political and military as well as social and economic -
from archaeological sources.
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