Art and the Early Greek State (New Studies in Archaeology)

Art and the Early Greek State (New Studies in Archaeology)
by Michael Shanks (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (3 Jun. 1999)
Language: English
Hardcover: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0521561175
ISBN-13: 9780521561174
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Book Description
Widely known as an innovative figure in contemporary archaeology, Michael Shanks has written a challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC. He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections between new urban environments, foreign trade, warfare, and the ideology of male sovereignty. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, which draws on an anthropologically informed archaeology, ancient history, art history, material culture studies and structural approaches to the classics, his book raises large questions about the links between design and manufacture, political and social structure, and culture and ideology in the ancient Greek world.