The Formation of the Greek Polis: Aristotle and Archeology 273. Sitz
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Herausgegeben von der Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Vortrage . G 272
JOHN NICOLAS COLDSTREAM The Formation of the Greek Polis: Aristotle and Archaeology
Westdeutscher Verlag
273. Sitzung am 16. Februar 1983 in Dusseldorf
CIP·Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek Cnldstream, John Nicol..: The formation of the Greek polis: Aristode and archaeology / John Nicolas Cnldstream. - Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1984. (Vortriige / Rheinisch·Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Geisteswissenschaften; G 272) ISBN·13: 978·3·531·07272·2 e·ISBN·13: 978·3·322·85341·7 DOl: 10.1007/978·3·322·85341·7 NE: Rheinisch·Westfaiische Akademie der Wissenschaften (DUsseldorf): Vortrage / Geisteswissenschaften
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Contents John Nicolas Coldstream, London The Formation of the Greek Polis: Aristotle and Archaeology The Aristotelian Scheme ......................................... Temples and Population. .. . .. . ...................... . .... .. . ..... Regional Differences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. The Greek Mainland ............................. ,. ..... ......... Euboea ........................................................ The Western Colonies ........................................... Old Smyrna ................ " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Zagora on Andros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crete..........................................................
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When an archaeologist of pre-Classical Greece is invited by your distinguished Academy to speak on an historical subject, the result will be an attempt at protohistory: that is, an attempt to gain an historical insight into a period without contemporary written records by confronting its archaeological evidence with the memories preserved in later literary sources. To my mind, proto history is a useful word, already accepted in several European languages, though hardly at all in English. To be sure, its aims may still be regarded with deep suspicion in two different quarters. Thus among the ancient historians of the English-speaking world we hear very much more of your word Quellenkritik; the written sources, when based on oral tradition from a much more remote antiquity, are sometimes subjected to such a ferocious internal criticism, that virtually nothing then remains to be compared with the archaeological record. Meanwhile the prehistoric archaeologist, with no written sources at all to guide or mislead him, may sometimes regard as unscientific any form of enquiry which crosses the frontier between two different disciplines. But I hope it can be assumed that you do not share such an extreme distrust of proto history; otherwise you would not have invited an archaeologist to present a paper on an historical theme. Before the period of which I
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