"Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State is that rare, genuinely original book. . . . . Highly recommended"

Choice

"There is much to praise in this book. The investigation, written in a vivid and pleasant style, is clear and erudite, with many welcome references to fragmentary historians. It will be a stimulating read not only for specialists, but also for students or for scholars interested in the topic without being familiar with Ancient Greece."

Sehepunkte

"By incorporating some of the key turns in the field of ancient history over the last thirty years—spatial, temporal, global, and local, as well as the move towards network based explanations—Beck has produced an important history that reads quite differently from the narrative familiar to many. He emphasizes the local not merely as a category of analysis but as a source of conflicting, resistant, alternative modes of discourse that added immeasurably to the richness of archaic and classical culture.”

Jeremy McInerney, author of Ancient Greece: A New History

"In creating a compelling case for the importance of the local, Beck provides a much-needed corrective to a scholarly orthodoxy that has underestimated the importance of place. Throughout, Beck displays a dazzling virtuosity with regard to his command of the scholarship and his ability to mesh literary sources—many of them drawn from relatively obscure and fragmentary authors—with numismatics, visual imagery, pottery styles, landscape archaeology, and archaeological field survey. It will certainly add a fresh new voice to the ongoing debate about connectivity."

Jonathan Hall, author of Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian

"This is a very stimulating book, which makes a very valuable case that deserves to be read widely and with attention."
 

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