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9780199981557 | 3 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2013), cover price $49.95
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9780199846047 | 3 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 16, 2011), cover price $59.95
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9781551641898 | Black Rose Books Ltd, May 1, 2001, cover price $58.99
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9781551641881 | Black Rose Books Ltd, August 1, 2001, cover price $29.99
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. (view table of contents)
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9780520202696 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age.
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9780520226913 | Univ of California Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $33.95
Product Description: This collection which represents a move toward a better understanding of the ancient people's attempts at situating economic life within particular societies. Some of the topics covered include a social and economical analysis of ancient, pre-State Greece; of the classical Maya; the Maori women and slaves; of rural India; rural Kentucky; and of pre-industrial Japan...read more
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9781895431896 | Black Rose Books Ltd, June 1, 1994, cover price $48.99 | About this edition: This collection which represents a move toward a better understanding of the ancient people's attempts at situating economic life within particular societies.
Product Description: This collection which represents a move toward a better understanding of the ancient people's attempts at situating economic life within particular societies. Some of the topics covered include a social and economical analysis of ancient, pre-State Greece; of the classical Maya; the Maori women and slaves; of rural India; rural Kentucky; and of pre-industrial Japan...read more
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9781895431889 | Black Rose Books Ltd, April 1, 1994, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This collection which represents a move toward a better understanding of the ancient people's attempts at situating economic life within particular societies.
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