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Archaic Naukratis was a busy trading place in the Western Delta of the Nile, renowned for its sanctuaries and courtesans, granting the Greeks access to Egyptian grain and luxury items. Now, more than one hundred years after the discovery and excavation of Naukratis, the author offers the first full-length analysis of the archaeology and archaic history of this important site. Although Naukratis always features in modern accounts of ancient Greek colonization, it was not a place where the Greeks could freely establish their own political and social organization - it was under the strict control of the Egyptian pharaoh and his officials. To understand the special status of Naukratis, the author takes the port of trade model, surveying the political, social, and economic background of both Late Period Egypt and archaic Greece. A major section of the book comprises an archaeological re-evaluation of the topography of archaic Naukratis and its material finds. The sanctuaries, archaic pottery styles, terracottas, faiences, statuettes, and other small finds are examined in the light of recent scholarship, and an in-depth study of the literary evidence is brought to bear on the archaeological material. This book comprises a significant contribution to our understanding of Graeco-Egyptian relations during the seventh and sixth centuries BC and also demonstrates that Polanyian economic theory can play an invaluable role in the ongoing debate about the concepts best employed to analyse the ancient Greek economy.

Archaic Naukratis was a busy trading place in the Western Delta of the Nile, renowned for its sanctuaries and courtesans, granting the Greeks access to Egyptian grain and luxury items. Now, more than one hundred years after the discovery and excavation of Naukratis, the author offers the first full-length analysis of the archaeology and archaic history of this important site. Although Naukratis always features in modern accounts of ancient Greek colonization, it was not a place where the Greeks could freely establish their own political and social organization - it was under the strict control of the Egyptian pharaoh and his officials. To understand the special status of Naukratis, the author takes the port of trade model, surveying the political, social, and economic background of both Late Period Egypt and archaic Greece. A major section of the book comprises an archaeological re-evaluation of the topography of archaic Naukratis and its material finds. The sanctuaries, archaic pottery styles, terracottas, faiences, statuettes, and other small finds are examined in the light of recent scholarship, and an in-depth study of the literary evidence is brought to bear on the archaeological material. This book comprises a significant contribution to our understanding of Graeco-Egyptian relations during the seventh and sixth centuries BC and also demonstrates that Polanyian economic theory can play an invaluable rôle in the ongoing debate about the concepts best employed to analyse the ancient Greek economy.

Der vorliegende Band ist Hans-Joachim Gehrke gewidmet, dessen Forschen in besonderer Weise der antiken Geschichtsschreibung gilt. Ihm zu Ehren behandeln die Autorinnen und Autoren sowohl die antike Historiographie in ihrem soziokulturellen Kontext und in ihren methodischen Voraussetzungen als auch weitere in der Antike übliche Formen der Ausübung kollektiver Erinnerung.Im Fokus der Beiträge stehen die vielfältigen Mittel, die Vergangenheit als Forschungs- oder Aneignungsobjekt zu bearbeiten. Die Themen reichen von der epischen oder bildlich-narrativen Darstellung geglaubter Vergangenheiten über die gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen der Beschäftigung mit eigener und fremder Geschichte, den intertextuellen Bezügen und historiographischen Diskursen bis hin zur Bedeutung des Vergessens als Strategie der Erinnerung und dem Vorschlag, das Studium der Weltliteratur zum besseren Verständnis von Geschichte zu nutzen.