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By Keith G. Walker

This ebook offers for the 1st time a historical past of Eretria throughout the Archaic period, the city's so much impressive interval of political value and Keith Walker examines the entire significant components of the city's success.

One of the major components explored is Eretria's position as a pioneer coloniser in either the Levant and the West - its early Aegaen 'island empire' anticipates that of Athens by way of greater than a century, and Eretrian transport and exchange was once equally widespread.

Eretria's significant, certainly dominant, function within the occasions of principal Greece within the final 1/2 the 6th century, and within the occasions of the Ionian rebel to 490 is obviously tested, and the tyranny of Diagoras (c.538-509), might be the golden age of town, is totally examined.

Full documentation of literary, epigraphic and archaeological assets (most of which has formerly been inaccessible to an English speaking-audience) is supplied, making a attention-grabbing historical past and necessary source for the Greek historian.

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1, 3, 16 C58; 10, 1, 9 C 447; Ion ap. Str. 1, 3, 19–20 C60; Arist. Mete. 2, 8; Sen. QN 4, 17, 25; for the Lelantine springs: Plin. HN 4, 64. The Roman dictator Sulla was just one of many who came to Aidepsos for medical reasons: Plut. Sull. 26. Geyer 1903, 101 believed that the fact that the thermal springs at Aidepsos were dedicated to Herakles indicates a very early date for their use. The Eretrian deme-name may indicate the presence of warm springs: cf. ), Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre IV, Copenhagen, 1997, 362 and nn.

8, 1, 5. 41 The political consequences are dealt with in Ch. 4, pp. 96, 116–18. 42 Ath. Deipn. 9, 369–70. 43 Il. 2, 537. 44 Theognis 784; 892. Auberson, ‘Le temple de Dionysos’, Eretria; Fouilles et Recherches V, Berne, 1976, 59–67, pl. 5. , Test, et Not. 203, 94–102: ‘Sola Eretria inter urbes Euboeae talia (Oinos-) nomina exhibit, quod qui vicos atque vineas hodierna ab Eretria urbe usque ad vicum Bathy (Amarynthos) peragraverit’ and he further notes: ‘Alia series nominum Eretriensium incipit ab cf.

The Kouretes were associated specifically with this hairstyle in Euboia, Aitolia and other centres of sub-Mycenaean culture—Athens, Crete and Cyprus—and we have representations on pottery of the hairstyle from the last. The famously warlike—but mythical—Euboian Kouretes reputedly were the first to shave the front of their head so that enemies could not grasp their hair and pull the heads forward, thus unbalancing them and exposing their necks to the sword. However another—historical—Euboian people, the Abantes, likewise followed this custom.

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