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This collection which represents a move toward a better
understanding of the ancient people's attempts at situating
economic life within particular societies. Some of the topics
covered include a social and economical analysis of ancient,
pre-State Greece; of the classical Maya; the Maori women and
slaves; of rural India; rural Kentucky; and of pre-industrial
Japan.
Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief
History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural,
and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its
complexity and variety. Written by six leading ancient Greek
historians, this captivating study covers Greek history from the
Bronze Age into the Roman period.
This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's "Works and Days" is a
collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter
Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient
Greek poet whose "Works and Days" discusses agricultural practices
and society in general. Classicists and ancient historians have
turned to "Works and Days" for its insights on Greek mythology and
religion. The poem also sheds light on economic history and ancient
agriculture, and is a good resource for social scientists
interested in these areas. This translation emphasizes the
activities and problems of a practicing agriculturist as well as
the larger, changing political and economic institutions of the
early archaic period.
The authors provide a clear, accurate translation along with notes
aimed at a broad audience. The introductory essay discusses the
changing economic, political and trading world of the eighth and
seventh centuries B.C.E., while the notes present the range and
possible meanings of important Greek terms and references in the
poem and highlight areas of ambiguity in our understanding of
"Works and Days,"
The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained
substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as
the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural
upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the
eighth century, and the role that poetry played in this upheaval.
Using tools from political and economic anthropology, David Tandy
argues that between about 800 and 700 B.C., a great transformation
of dominant economic institutions took place involving wrenching
adjustments in the way status and wealth were distributed within
the Greek communities.
Tandy explores the economic organization of preindustrial
societies, both ancient and contemporary, to shed light on the
Greek experience. He argues that the sudden shift in Greek economic
formations led to new social behaviors and to new social structures
such as the "polis," itself a by-product of economic change.
Unraveling the dialectic between the material record and epic
poetry, Tandy shows that the epic tradition mirrored these new
social behaviors and that it portrayed the stresses that economic
change brought to the ancient Aegean world.
Tandy brings in comparative evidence from other small-scale
communities beset by changes, spotlighting the specific plight of
one community, Ascra in Boeotia, on whose behalf Hesiod sang his
"Works and Days," The result is a lively, moving account of a human
dilemma that, many centuries later, is all too familiar.
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