Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece

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).

• 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.

'Loy has done admirable and dogged work in aggregating an immense amount of legacy data into new forms that can reinvigorate old debates and introduce new questions about the development of communities and economies in the Archaic Aegean.' Megan Daniels, Bryn Mawr Classical Review