Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece : Exploring Economic and Political Networks through Data Modelling

by: Loy, M.

Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece
Exploring Economic and Political Networks through Data Modelling

Series: British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity

Author: Michael Loy , University of Cambridge

This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify new patterns about Archaic Greece. By modelling trade routes, political alliances, and the formation of personal- and state-networks, the book sheds new light on how exactly the early communities of the Aegean basin were plugged into one another. Returning to the long-debated question of 'what is a polis?', this study also challenges Classical Archaeology more generally: that the discipline has at its fingertips significant datasets that can contribute to substantive historical debate -and that what can be done for the next generation of scholarship is to re-engage with old material in a new way.

Synthesises over 100 years of archaeological data from more than 220 sites
Introduces new social-science models and frameworks of interpretation to a humanities audience, in a clear and non-jargonistic way
Engages with the challenge that Classical Archaeology has vast and diverse datasets that can answer big and complex historical questions

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Economic networks: the transport of heavy freight
3. Economic networks
commodities and semi-luxuries
4. Entangled networks: the transfer of technical knowledge
5. Political networks: expressions of political affiliation
6. Political networks: state alliance and amphiktyonies
7. Conclusions.

Author
Michael Loy , University of Cambridge
MICHAEL LOY is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Previously he was Assistant Director of the British School at Athens (2019–2022). As a field archaeologist, he has over ten years of experience working on projects in Greece, Britain and Turkey. He is currently co-director of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (2021–2025).

Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece : Exploring Economic and Political Networks through Data Modelling

by: Loy, M.

• ISBN-13: 9781009343831 / 978-1-009-34383-1
• ISBN-03: 1009343831 / 1-009-34383-1
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

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