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3 - The Emergence of the Polis

from Part I - The Urban Fabric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
John K. Papadopoulos
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

The bookends to this chapter are two watersheds, the collapse of the Mycenaean palatial system and the Battle of Salamis (ca. 1200–480 BC). The chapter explores the landscape of the living and the dead, the emergence of the Athenian polis, and the broader issue that determined and defined the period.

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AthenspolisLate Bronze Age to Classical
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 35 - 46
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

For a good overview of Early Iron Age Athens (Submycenean to Archaic), consult Dimitriadou 2019. For the Mycenean Akropolis, see Iakovidis 2006 (with more recent bibliography in Papadopoulos and Smithson 2017). For the topography of Early Iron Age Athens, see Papadopoulos 2003 (with references to critical earlier work); for the cemeteries of the period in the Kerameikos and Agora, see Morris 1987, Knigge 1988, Papadopoulos and Smithson 2017 (with discussion of resilience theory), and Papadopoulos forthcoming. For the collapse of the Mycenean economy and what follows, Murray 2017 is the most recent; for central Greek settlement and demographics, Knodell forthcoming is invaluable. For periodization in the Early Iron Age, Kotsonas 2016 is important; critical developments of the period are fully discussed in Papadopoulos 2014. Among earlier studies, the overviews by Snodgrass 1971 (cf. also his collected papers, Snodgrass 2006) and Coldstream 1977 remain important.

Bibliography

Additional resources to accompany this chapter can be found at: www.cambridge.org/NeilsRogers

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Kotsonas, A. 2016. “The Politics of Periodization and the Archaeology of Early Greece.” AJA 120: 239–270.Google Scholar
Iakovidis, S.E. 2006. The Mycenaean Acropolis of Athens. Athens.Google Scholar
Morris, I. 1987. Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Murray, S.C. 2017. The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Imports, Trade, and Institutions 1300–700 bce. Cambridge.Google Scholar
Papadopoulos, J.K. 2003. Ceramicus Redivivus: The Early Iron Age Potters’ Field in the Area of the Classical Athenian Agora. Princeton.Google Scholar
Papadopoulos, J.K. 2014. “Greece in the Early Iron Age: Mobility, Commodities, Polities, and Literacy.” In The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, eds. Knapp, A.B. and van Dommelen, P., Cambridge, 178–195.Google Scholar
Papadopoulos, J.K. 2016. “Komai, Colonies, and Cities in Epirus and Southern Albania: The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Urbanism on the Fringes of the Greek World.” In Of Odysseys and Oddities: Scales and Modes of Interaction between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and Their Neighbours, ed. Molloy, B.P.C., Oxford, 435–460.Google Scholar
Papadopoulos, J.K. Forthcoming. “Athens, 1200–600 bce.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Greek Early Iron Age, ed. Antonaccio, C. and Carter, J., Cambridge.Google Scholar
Papadopoulos, J.K., and Smithson, E.L.. 2017. The Early Iron Age: The Cemeteries. Agora 36. Princeton.Google Scholar
Snodgrass, A.M. 1971. The Dark Age of Greece: An Archaeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries bc. Edinburgh.Google Scholar
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