Στο βιβλίο του Alex R. Knodell (*) «Κοινωνίες σε μετάβαση
στην Πρώιμη Ελλάδα: Μια αρχαιολογική ιστορία» – Societies in Transition in Early Greece – An Archaeological History (εκδ. University of California
Press, 2021) ο καθηγητής λέει πως «…για να καταλάβουμε πώς η αρχαία Ελλάδα
άλλαξε με την πάροδο του χρόνου, πρέπει να αναλύσουμε πώς οι ελληνικές
κοινωνίες συγκροτήθηκαν και ανασυστήθηκαν από τις τοπικές κοινωνίες έως και τις
αποικίες τους στη Μεσόγειο»…
(*) Ο Alex R. Knodell είναι αναπληρωτής καθηγητής Κλασσικών
και Διευθυντής του Προγράμματος Αρχαιολογίας στο Carleton College. Στην Ελλάδα,
διευθύνει το Πρόγραμμα Μικρών Κυκλάδων και το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο Μαζί / Mazi.
Situated at the disciplinary
boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of
Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean
civilization, through the “Dark Age” and up to the emergence of
city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of
varied political systems and the development of networks that would eventually
expand to nearly all shores of the Middle Sea. Alex R. Knodell argues that in
order to understand how ancient Greece changed over time, one must analyze how
Greek societies constituted and reconstituted themselves across multiple scales,
from the local to the regional to the Mediterranean. Knodell employs innovative
network and spatial analyses to understand the regional diversity and
connectivity that drove the growth of early Greek polities. As a groundbreaking
study of landscape, interaction, and sociopolitical change, Societies in
Transition in Early Greece systematically bridges the divide between the
Mycenaean period and the Archaic Greek world to shed new light on an
often-overlooked period of world history.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Alex R. Knodell is Associate
Professor of Classics and Director of the Archaeology Program at Carleton
College. In Greece, he co-directs the Small Cycladic Islands Project and the
Mazi Archaeological Project. He is the author of numerous academic articles and
co-editor of Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity.
