The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

H. A. Shapiro is the W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Classics at The Johns Hopkins University. A Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, he is the author of Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens, Personifications in Greek Art, Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece, and co-author of Women in the Classical World. He has been a Visiting Professor at Munich University, Princeton University, and the University of Cape Town.

• Part I. History of Archaic Greece: 1. Tyrants and lawgivers Victor Parker; 2. Polis, community and ethnic identity Jonathan M. Hall; 3. Warfare and hoplites Peter Krentz; 4. The life cycle in archaic Greece Deborah Kamen; Part II. Literature and Philosophy: 5. Homer, Hesiod, and the epic tradition Jonathan Ready; 6. Lyric poetry Leslie V. Kurke; 7. The philosophers in archaic Greek culture Andrea Nightingale; Part III. History and Material Culture: 8. Colonization: Greece on the move, 900–480 Carla M. Antanccio; 9. Delphi, Olympia, and the art of politics Richard Neer; 10. The human figure in early Greek sculpture and vase-painting Jeffrey M. Hurwit.

"With all the questions and debates that this volume presents, it certainly encourages the reader to explore the subjects more deeply." --BMCR