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# A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) Paperback – August 19, 2013

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A history book for the grown-up mind
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2008*

We all learnt history at school and the history of Ancient Greece is an integral part of the curriculum in Europe and perhaps in some other parts of the world too. You meet it in primary school and then at secondary school because you have to understand the roots of democracy and of European civilisation to make sense of our era. You might have a feeling that you already know enough. But do you? No. If you take this book into your hands and start reading it turns out that you do not know too much about either the archaic Greek world or, what is more, history: in Chapter 1 the key question "What is History?" pops up after the author shows you an obvious pitfall when someone tries to assemble the pieces from different literary sources ranging from Hesiod to Plutarch. I asked a few of my acquaintances but no one had a well-informed or well-thought-over answer, obviously, we do not spend too much thought on it and therefore are not prepared to answer this seemingly simple question. However, this is the fundamental question in history as your relationship to history depends on your answer and on the answer the historian who writes a book gives to it.As it turns out, what a nine or fourteen years old student is usually taught under the title "History" is mostly a bunch of anecdotal stories from the pens of authors who lived centuries after the actual events. On the other hand, archeology is not that reliable source either, partly because not everything leaves material traces behind and, secondly, only a small fraction of those which do is uncovered or matched with the appropriate historical context.This book is great in showing the reader how the data available to the historian is insufficient to support certainties in most aspects of archaic Greek life and events and sometimes the careful analysis suggests a different most probable interpretation from the widely accepted one. The further back we look into the murky waters of time, the more common it is to be left with probabilities and trends, and uncertainties and doubts, than with facts and truths. The author does more than teaching history, he helps you learn to think in the historian way.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I Keep Going Back
  

*by H***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2012*

I am currently writing a dissertation that requires my constantly referring to the primary and secondary sources of Greek political history. Over and over again, I have returned to this book, because of both its comprehensiveness, presentation of primary source texts in "windows" or tables that contribute much to the author's arguments in each section and lastly, the author's unsurpassed excellence in presenting all the sides to each issue in highly readable form. Until today, I had been using my university's library copy...but, decided today that this is a book well worth having in my own possession, as I will likely be referring to it several more times in the years to come.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Review of Hall's 'History of the Archaic Greek World'
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2011*

Hall establishes and completes a specific task: presenting contemporary developments in the discipline of history and their relevance to his niche of expertise, archaic Greece. The book is not only an introduction to the period; it is also an introduction to historical research. This approach has its uses. Readers get to witness the Chicago style, come to understand the importance of historical sources and the variety of evidence present in ancient history, and get a feel for the presence of dispute and uncertainty that is critical to history. This is a book about evidence, not facts.The method also creates a few problems. First, it doesn't present a chronological view of the period, though with archaic Greece this can't be done anyways. Second, Hall loves to reference secondary sources in the text, which are really useless to his target audience. College freshmen aren't going to bother reading these. I would recommend is reading Hall in conjunction with another history, one centered on a timeline.

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