Cretan cities
Subtitle: formation and transformation
By: edited by Florence Gaignerot-Driessen & Jan Driessen
Series: AEGIS -- 07; Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium) -- 7.
Publisher: UCL, Presses universitaires de Louvain
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9782875583284
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: City-states; History; Cities and towns; Politics and government; Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Political science
Description: This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting a number of lectures given at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2010-2012 in the frame of a seminar entitled 'La naissance des cités crétoises'. Eight Cretan sites (Axos, Phaistos, Prinias, Karphi, Dreros, Azoria, Praisos, and Itanos), recently excavated or re-excavated, are considered in their regional and historical context in order to explore the origin and early development of the Greek city-state on the island.
Notes: Updated versions of papers originally presented at a seminar series, Université cathollique de Louvain, 2010-2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

English and French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Reading Cretan cities, writing Cretan cities  -- Florence Gaignerot-Driessen; title: Axos, a Cretan City (1200-500 BC)  -- Eva Tegou; title: La naissance de la polis de Phaistos :; title: du site mycénien à la cité dorienne  -- Daniela Lefèvre-Novaro; title: Prinias :; title: une cité crétoise de l'Âge du Fer et son histoire  -- Antonella Pautasso; title: The creative city :; title: the construction of Cretan society after the 1200 BC collapse  -- Saro Wallace; title: Dréros :; title: cité et sanctuaires  -- Vasiliki Zographaki, Alexandre Farnoux; title: Azoria and Archaic urbanization  -- Donald C. Haggis; title: Commensality and the "Citizen State" :; title: the case of Praisos  -- James Whitley; title: Facing the sea :; title: Cretan identity in a harbour-city context :; title: some remarks on the early development of Itanos -- Didier Viviers, Athéna Tsingarida.