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This book presents for the first time a history of Eretria during
the Archaic Era, the city's most notable period of political
importance and Keith Walker examines all the major elements of the
city's success. One of the key factors explored is Eretria's role
as a pioneer coloniser in both the Levant and the West - its early
Aegaen 'island empire' anticipates that of Athens by more than a
century, and Eretrian shipping and trade was similarly widespread.
Eretria's major, indeed dominant, role in the events of central
Greece in the last half of the sixth century, and in the events of
the Ionian Revolt to 490 is clearly demonstrated, and the tyranny
of Diagoras (c.538-509), perhaps the golden age of the city, is
fully examined. Full documentation of literary, epigraphic and
archaeological sources (most of which has previously been
inaccessible to an English speaking-audience) is provided, creating
a fascinating history and valuable resource for the Greek
historian.
Eretria, on the island of Euboia, was an early and significant
coloniser in both the Levant and in the West. During the period of
the Persian advance towards the Aegean, the city was the moving
spirit in the Greek resistance to Persian domination. Her
democratic government pre-dates that of Athens and given the
presence in Eretria of political exiles from Peisistratid Athens,
it may have provided the basic model of Kleishthenes' reforms in
Attica. This comprehensive and well-argued book is the first
detailed history in any language of the city, one of the most
prosperous and important of the pre-classical period. This study
offers an alternative to the orthodox Athenocentric perception of
the history of late sixth-and early fifth-century Greece. Keith
Walker's stimulating and thoughtful work seamlessly synthesises
evidence from archaeology, philology, textual research, epigraphy
and numismatics. The study begins by examining the period from the
later Neolithic to the early Iron Age. The following chapters cover
the city's rise to prominence in the Archaic era. Throughout there
is skilful reconstruction of the complex alliances and enmities of
the Greek cities, crucial to understand
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