From Homer to Solon: Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece

502 Pages·2022·2.153 MB·English

by  Johannes C. Bernhardt, Mirko Canevaro

FromHomertoSolon
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From Homer to Solon
ContinuityandChangeinArchaicGreece
Editedby
JohannesC.Bernhardt
MirkoCanevaro
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Contents
Preface vii
NotesonContributors viii
Introduction 1
JohannesC.BernhardtandMirkoCanevaro
part 1
ApproachingEarlyArchaicGreece
1 ArchaeologicalApproachestotheArchaicEra 29
JohnBintliff
2 AComparativeApproach:EarlyArchaicGreeceandMedieval
Iceland 37
PeterZeller
3 TheHomericRootsofHelotage 64
DavidM.Lewis
4 HomerandtheVocabularyofManumission 93
SaraZanovello
5 ‘Bought,NotWed!’HesiodandtheAristocratic‘Peasants’ 115
JanB.Meister
part 2
CitizensandCity-States
6 HippotrophiaasCitizenBehaviourinArchaicGreece 139
AlainDuplouy
7 PuttingtheCitizenintheCitizen-State:ParticipatingintheEarlyCretan
polis 162
GunnarSeelentag
vi contents
8 InsideandOutsidetheCommunity:TheRoleofPoliticalThinkingin
the‘Riseofthepolis’ 203
TanjaItgenshorst
9 WhatAreEarlyGreekLawsAbout?SubstanceandProcedureinArchaic
Statutes,c.650–450bc 227
EdwardM.HarrisandDavidM.Lewis
part 3
LeadersandReformers
10 AgainsttheRules:ThePluralityofOikistsandNewPerspectiveson
Greek‘Colonisation’ 265
SebastianScharff
11 TurannoiinArchaicGreece:ANewPhenomenonoraNewNameforan
OldPhenomenon? 301
JamesTaylor
12 TyrannicalandCivicReceptionofHomer—AProblemofSources 330
LarsHübner
13 SocialMobilityvs.SocietalStability:OnceAgainontheAimsand
MeaningofSolon’sReforms 363
MirkoCanevaro
14 AFailedTyrant?Solon’sPlaceinAthenianHistory 414
JohannesC.Bernhardt
ConcludingRemarks:ArchaicGreeceandtheConsciousnessof
Community 462
JohannesC.Bernhardt
IndexLocorum 471
IndexofNamesandPlaces 487
Preface
This volume stems from the panel ‘Mass, Elite, and the Order of the Polis in
ArchaicGreece’organizedinJune2014bytheeditorsaspartoftheCelticCon-
ferenceinClassicsheldattheUniversityofEdinburgh.Itwasaverysuccessful
panel,inwhichlinksandcommoninterestsamongtheparticipantssparked
importantdiscussionaboutArchaicGreece.Twooriginallyplannedpapersby
OlivierMariaudonthesocialhistoryoftheIoniancitiesandbyAdamRabinow-
itzonthelate-Archaicsymposiumcouldunfortunatelynotbeincludedinthe
publicationduetoothercommitments.Aswellaspapersdeliveredduringthe
courseof thatpanel,thevolumefeaturesadditionalpapersgatheredthrough
widerdialoguewithotherconferenceparticipants(DavidM.Lewis,SaraZan-
ovello) who joined in the discussion, and additional commissioned papers
(LarsHübner,SebastianScharff,PeterZeller).Theresultingcollectionofschol-
arsisremarkablyinternational,andthevolumeattempts,throughafocused
explorationofspecificissues,tobringtogetherdevelopmentsinscholarlytradi-
tions(British,French,German,Italian)thathavenotalwayssucceededincreat-
ingameaningfuldialogueaboutthehistoryofArchaicGreece.Duetotheaddi-
tionofnewcontributions,adifferentfocusthanthatoftheconferenceseemed
appropriateforthestructuringofthevolumeandledtothepresenttitle‘From
Homer to Solon. Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece’. In conclusion,
thereremainsonlythepleasantdutyofthankingvariouspeople:AntonPow-
ell,whounfortunatelypassedawayinthemeantimeandwillbesorelymissed
byallresearchersonArchaicGreece;DouglasCairnsforacceptingouroriginal
proposalandincludingourpanelintheprogrammeoftheCelticConferencein
Classics;AliceRaeforherinvaluablehelpinpreparingthemanuscriptandfor
editingthelanguageofseveralpapers;theanonymousreviewers,whoprovided
mostvaluableadviceonhowbesttofinalisethemanuscript;AlbertoEsufor
preparing the indices; and, above all, the participants in the conference and
thecontributorstothisvolumefortheirpatiencethroughoutthepublication
process.Finally,wewanttothankChristianMann—itwasthankstohimthat
theeditorsofthisvolumefirstmet,nowalmostadecadeago,andstarteddis-
cussingallthingsGreek(andArchaicinparticular),andthisvolume,likethe
conferencefromwhichitoriginates,istheproductofanongoingdialoguethat
startedinMannheimunderhistutelage.
Notes on Contributors
JohannesC.Bernhardt
PhD2012attheUniversityofFreiburg,isanancienthistoriananddigitalman-
ageratBadenStateMuseumKarlsruhe.HehaspublishedonHellenistichistory
andmuseumstudies,includingDieJüdischeRevolution(DeGruyter2018).
JohnBintliff
is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden
University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is the
author,amongothers,ofTheCompleteArchaeologyofGreece(Wiley-Blackwell
2012)andTheDeathofArchaeologicalTheory?(Oxbow2011).
MirkoCanevaro
isProfessorofGreekHistoryattheUniversityofEdinburgh.Hehaspublished
extensively on the history of the Greek polis, particularly on Demosthenes
and Athens (oup 2013, De Gruyter 2016) and Aristotle’s Politics (L’Erma di
Bretschneider2014,2022).
AlainDuplouy
isReaderinGreekarchaeologyattheUniversitéParis1Panthéon-Sorbonne.He
haspublishedextensivelyonpre-Classicalelites,citizenship,andthemaking
oftheGreekcity(LesBellesLettres2006,2019;oup2018).
EdwardM.Harris
isEmeritusProfessorofAncientHistoryatDurhamUniversity.Heistheauthor
ofAeschinesandAthenianPolitics(oup1995),DemocracyandtheRuleofLawin
ClassicalAthens(cup2006),andTheRuleofLawinActioninDemocraticAthens
(oup2013).
LarsHübner
PhD2018attheUniversityofHamburg,isanancienthistorianandhighschool
teacher at Margaretha Rothe Gymnasium Hamburg. He has published on
Archaic Homeric reception and intentional history, including Homerimkul-
turellenGedächtnis(Steiner2019).
TanjaItgenshorst
isProfessorofAncientHistoryattheUniversityofFribourg(Switzerland).She
has published on the Roman Republic (particularly on the Roman triumph)
notes on contributors ix
andArchaicGreece(e.g.onpoliticalthought:DenkerundGemeinschaft,Schön-
ingh2014).
DavidM.Lewis
is Lecturer in Greek History and Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He
works on ancient slavery and ancient Greek labour history and is author of
GreekSlaveSystemsintheirEasternMediterraneanContext,c.800–146bc(oup
2018).
JanB.Meister
is snsf Eccellenza Professor at the University of Bern. After his dissertation
ontheRomanemperor’sbody(Steiner2012)herecentlypublishedhissecond
bookonelitesandconceptsofnobilityinArchaicandClassicalGreece(Steiner
2020).
SebastianScharff
isanancienthistorianatMünsterUniversity.Hehaspublishedoninterstate
relations in Greek antiquity (Steiner 2016) and the cultural history of Greek
athletics(Steiner2016,cupforthcoming2022).
GunnarSeelentag
isProfessorofAncientHistoryattheLeibnizUniversityHannover.Hespecial-
izesinArchaicandEarlyClassicalGreeceaswellastheRomanPrincipateof
thefirsttwocenturies.Amonghisrecentpublicationsisaneditedvolumeon
competitionandinstitutionalisationinArchaicGreece(Steiner2020).
JamesTaylor
receivedhisPhDfromDurhamUniversityin2017,specialisinginArchaicGreek
societyandthephenomenonoftyrannis.Henowteacheshistoryataschoolin
Hertfordshire,England.
SaraZanovello
isCPDResearchManageroftheLawSocietyofScotland.Sheholdsajoint-PhD
fromtheUniversitiesofPadova(LawSchool)andEdinburgh(Classics).Sheis
authorof FromSlavetoFree.ALegalPerspectiveonGreekManumission(Ediz-
ionidell’Orso2021).
PeterZeller
is Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen. His doctoral thesis was
abouttheearlyperiodof ArchaicGreece(VerlagAntike2020).Nowhismain
fieldofresearchistheclimatehistoryofGreekandRomanantiquity.