Description: Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people.
- Seeks to balance the Greek and Anatolian cultural influences at work in Ionia in this important period of its history (700BC to the Battle of Lade in 494BC)
- Organised thematically, covering landscape, economy, cities, colonisation, warfare, cult, and art
- Accesses German and Turkish scholarship, presenting a useful point of entry to the published literature for academics and students
Review Quotes: "This was a missed opportunity, but not significant enough to diminish the book's success and usefulness." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 17 April 2011)
"The study, and especially the maps, could prove a most useful preparation or ready reference when reading Herodotus." ("Book News Inc, " November 2010)
"Its accessibility and organization provides a much needed bridge between Classical and 'mainstream' archaeology, and brings both the ideas and this intriguing region to a wider readership." ("Minerva", November/December 2010)