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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Documents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Timeline | |
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| The Practice of History | |
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| The Lelantine War | |
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| The Lelantine War Deconstructed | |
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| What Is History? | |
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| History as Literature | |
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| Method and Theory | |
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| Sources, Evidence, Dates | |
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| Evaluating Sources | |
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| Dating Archaic Poets | |
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| Non-Literary Evidence | |
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| Ancient Chronography | |
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| Archaeological Dating | |
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| The End of the Mycenaean World and Its Aftermath | |
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| Mycenaean Greece | |
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| Gauging the Historicity of the Dorian Migration | |
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| Alternative Explanations | |
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| The Loss and Recovery of Writing | |
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| Whose Dark Age? | |
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| Communities of Place | |
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| Defining the Polls | |
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| The Urban Aspect of the Polis: Houses, Graves, and Walls | |
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| Political and Economic Functions | |
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| Cultic Communities | |
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| Polis and Ethnos | |
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| New Homes Across the Seas | |
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| On the Move | |
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| The Credibility of Colonial Foundation Stories | |
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| Pots and Peoples | |
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| A Spartan Foundation? Taras, Phalanthos, and the Partheniai | |
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| Hunger or Greed? | |
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| The Changing Nature of Authority | |
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| Charting the Genesis of the State | |
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| Kings or "Big-Men"? | |
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| The Emergence of an Aristocracy | |
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| Laws and Institutions | |
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| The Return of the "Big-Man" | |
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| A Cautionary Tale: Pheidon of Argos | |
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| Fighting for the Fatherland | |
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| A Hoplite Revolution? | |
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| Some More Equal Than Others | |
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| Conquest, Territory, and Exploitation | |
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| Archaeological Gaps: Attica and Crete | |
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| Defining the Political Community | |
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| Looking to the End | |
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| The Role of the Demos and the Great Rhetra | |
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| Drawing Boundaries | |
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| Land, Labor, and the Crisis in Attica | |
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| The "Second Sex" | |
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| Evaluating the Spartan Mirage | |
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| The City of Theseus | |
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| The End of the Tyranny | |
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| The Birth of Democracy? | |
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| The Unification of Attica | |
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| Theseus: Democrat or Autocrat? | |
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| The (A)typicality of Athens | |
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| Making a Living | |
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| Conceptualizing Ancient Economic Activity | |
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| A Peasant Economy? | |
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| Plying the Seas | |
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| The Introduction of Coinage | |
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| The Rise of Persia and the Invasions of Greece | |
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| Imagining Greece | |
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| "Greek" Culture: Unity and Diversity | |
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| Greeks and Others: The External Dimension | |
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| The Emergence of Panhellenism: The Internal Dimension | |
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| The Invention of the Barbarian | |
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| Writing the History of Archaic Greece | |
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| The First Sacred War: Fact or Fiction? | |
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| The limits of Narrative History | |
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| Dividing up Time and Space | |
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| Abbreviations and Glossary of Literary Sources | |
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| Works Cited in the Further Reading | |
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| Guide to Electronic Resources | |
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| Index | |