All of these essays help us to rethink old approaches to archaic Greece, and they will undoubtedly inspire new scholarship for many years to come. Susan O Shapiro, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Poetics of Power: The Interpretation of Ritual Action in Archaic Greece ; 3. The Archaeology of Ancestors ; 4. Divine Selection: Epiphany and Politics in Archaic Greece ; 5. Hipparchos and the Rhapsodes ; 6. The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom ; 7. The Economy of Kudos ; 8. Hero Cult and Politics in Herodotus: The Bones of Orestes ; 9. It's Murder to Found a Colony ; 10. Thucydides' Solonion Reflections ; 11. The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 BCE: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy ; Bibliography