7 x 10. 320 pgs. 14 B&W photographs, 156 color photographs, 23 drawings, 12 charts, 58 maps. (2006) Cloth 978-0-472-11477-1 $95.00S  Available Add to Cart Search this Book's Content About the Book Praise Look Inside Series Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures Subjects Archaeology--Greek / Classical Studies--Greek

Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto

Joseph Coleman Carter



Explores one of the earliest and most comprehensive archeological explorations of rural Greece

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About the Book

Though the Greeks were generally thought to be city-dwellers, with a primarily urban culture, the polis was much more than a thriving city. It included a chora or very sizeable agricultural territory where farmers worked and lived to produce the means of subsistence for the urban population, as well as a surplus for trade. Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto explores one of the earliest and most comprehensive archaeological explorations of these "other Greeks."

The book aims to inform archaeologists, students, and scholars about the previously overlooked evidence regarding the ancient Greek countryside.

Joseph Coleman Carter is Director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology; Centennial Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin.