Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece

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