Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece.; (Classics and Contemporary Thought)

Tandy, David W.

ISBN 10: 0520226917 / ISBN 13: 9780520226913

Edité par University of California Press, 2000

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296pp. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight.

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• Titre: Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece.; (Classics and Contemporary Thought)
• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520226917
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520226913
• Reliure: Paperback
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l'auteur

David W. Tandy is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Departments of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Tennessee. He has translated, with Walter C. Neale, Hesiod's Works and Days (California, 1996).