Year: 2004
Author: Keith G.Walker
Genre: History of Ancient Greece
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0-415-28552-6
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 345

The book presents the archaic period of the history of Eretria, marked by the greatest political influence of this ancient Greek policy. Drawing on literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources, the author examines all the main components, which, in his opinion, led to the rise of the city. One of the key factors is the development of the city's fleet, which allowed the successful trade and colonization of the Levant and the Aegean. The strength of the Eretric Navy brought the city the status of thalassocracy in the period 506-490. BC, and the importance of its rowers, (etymologically, Eretria, possibly related to "rowing", ie, "City of oarsmen"), according to the author, probably led to the emergence of a democratic constitution.

List of illustrations……………….. vii
Preface………………………………. x
Documentation and conventions……………. xii
Acknowledgements…………………………… xiv
1. The geography of Euboia and the Eretrias…………. 1
2. Prehistory, mythology and cult: the earliest inhabitants of
Euboia from the late Neolithic Age to the end of the
Mycenaean Age………………………………….27
3. Old Eretria (Lefkandi) during the Dark Ages and early Iron
Age (c. 1050 to c. 750)………………………………… 72
4. Eretria from c. 825 to c. 650…………………………….. 89
5. Eretria: its history in the wider Greek world during the
seventh and early sixth centuries……………………………. 139
6. Eretria: emergent ‘great power’ of the mid-sixth century…………………….. 178
7. The tyranny of Diagoras (c. 538–509)……………………………… 201
8. The Eretrian democracy (c. 509–490)……………………………….. 228
9. Eretria in the 490s ………………………………………………..260
10. Epilogue ……………………………………………………….277
Appendix 1: Chronological tables and notes…………………………. 279
Appendix 2: Minoan notes…………………………………………….. 282
Appendix 3: The Kypselidai, Theognis and the low chronology……………………….. 284
Appendix 4:
The source of Strabo’s description of the Amarynthos stele
(10, 1, 10, c. 448)…………………………………………………….. 286
Appendix 5: Corinth in central Greece (519–506)……………………………… 289
Bibliograhy……………………………………………………….. 291

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