Michael Loy

Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece

Exploring Economic and Political Networks Through Data Modelling

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Produktbeschreibung

"A new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological material from over 100 years, employing experimental modelling techniques from the digital humanities to reveal new patterns about how Greece's first city-states traded with one another and made alliances"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781009343817
• ISBN-10: 1009343815
• Artikelnr.: 67636968

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL LOY is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was Assistant Director of the British School at Athens (2019¿2022). As a field archaeologist, he has over ten years of experience working on projects in Greece, Britain and Turkey. He is currently co-director of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (2021¿2025).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Economic networks: the transport of heavy freight
3. Economic networks
commodities and semi-luxuries
4. Entangled networks: the transfer of technical knowledge
5. Political networks: expressions of political affiliation
6. Political networks: state alliance and amphiktyonies
7. Conclusions.