Beyond the Acropolis
Subtitle: a rural Greek past
By: Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis Runnels.
Contributors: Runnels, Curtis Neil, 1950-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Greece -- Rural conditions.; Greece -- Social life and customs.
Description: Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use"--Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [189]-212.
Includes index.