Burial and ancient society: The rise of the Greek city-state

by: Morris, I.

This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeologists working with burial evidence, in whatever period. This book differs from many topical studies of state formation in that unique and particular developments are given as much weight as those factors which are common to all early states. The ancient literary evidence and the relevant historical and anthropological comparisons are extensively drawn on in an attempt to explain the transition to the city-state, a development which was to have decisive effects for the subsequent development of European society.

Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction: the argument
Part I:
2. The living and the dead
3. The social dimensions of early Greek burial
Part II:
4. Demography and space
5. The burying groups
6. Exclusion and retrieval
7. Mortuary and display
9. Pottery and population
Part III:
10. The rise of the polis
11. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Site index
General index.

Burial and ancient society: The rise of the Greek city-state

by: Morris, I.

• ISBN-13: 9780521387385 / 978-0-521-38738-5
• ISBN-03: 0521387388 / 0-521-38738-8
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003