Classical Landscape With Figures: The Ancient Greek City and Its Countryside

CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES. The Ancient Greek City and its Countryside......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Time-chart......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
The dominance of the countryside......Page 16
The concealment of agriculture......Page 19
The country in the city......Page 24
The formation of the Greek peninsula......Page 30
The climatic constraints......Page 32
How did ancient farmers cope?......Page 37
Table 2. The provisions of Classical and Hellenistic agricultural leases......Page 45
3. A SETTLED COUNTRY?......Page 56
The traditional settlement history......Page 58
The archaeological evidence......Page 59
The evidence of inscriptions......Page 74
4. THE COUNTRY DISRUPTED......Page 78
Metals and society: underpinning orundermining?......Page 79
Stone and the building of the city......Page 84
Exchanging neighbours......Page 96
Living off the country......Page 97
Importing corn......Page 100
The domination of the market......Page 107
The luxury of the town......Page 111
6. THE POLITICS OF SETTLEMENT......Page 116
The attractions of the town......Page 117
Patterns of elite rule......Page 121
Democracy and the hierarchy of settlement......Page 126
The pressure of external forces......Page 135
7. THE FIELD OF WAR......Page 140
Traditional Greek warfare......Page 141
The countryside of training......Page 148
Changing strategies: changing countrysides......Page 154
8. THE COUNTRYOF THE GODS......Page 168
The gods of city and country......Page 169
The agricultural heartland of religion......Page 175
The countryside revised: dedications......Page 188
The countryside made wild: Dionysos and Pan......Page 192
9. EPILOGUE: THE USES OF THE COUNTRYSIDE......Page 196
Abbreviations......Page 201
Ancient Authors......Page 202
General Bibliography......Page 204
Index......Page 215