Anthony Snodgrass’s classic study (1980) dubbed the Archaic era the “Age ofExperiment,” and one remains amazed at the dynamism of this society, whether we look at the proliferation of hundreds of independent polities, the great wave of colonization around the Mediterranean and Black Sea, or the rapid developments in art and architecture. The abovenoted absence of an overpowering empire, allowing so many “small worlds” to evolve, plus their internalized mentality and external aggressiveness to each other, seem to be elements stimulating unparalleled expressions of autonomy in the erection of monumental civic works, experiments in democracy, and remarkable explorations in the artistic and literary representation of everyday life and religious belief.
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Lang, F. (1996). Archdische Siedlungen in Griechenland: Struktur und Entwicklung. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
Morris, I. (1987). Burial and Ancient Society. The Rise of the Greek City-State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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