A Companion to Archaic Greece 
Kurt A. Raaflaub, Hans van Wees
Wiley-Blackwell
A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period.<ul><li>The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic Greece<li>Places Greek society of c.750-480 BCE in its chronological and geographical context<li>Gives equal emphasis to established topics such as tyranny and political reform and newer subjects like gender and ethnicity<li>Combines accounts of historical developments with regional surveys of archaeological evidence and in-depth treatments of selected themes<li>Explores the impact of Eastern and other non-Greek cultures in the development of Greece<li>Uses archaeological and literary evidence to reconstruct broad patterns of social and cultural development</ul>