Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The design of archaic Korinth: the question of a beginning and an interpretive archaeology; 2. Craft production in the early city state: some historical and material contexts; 3. Early archaic Korinth: design and style; 4. Consumption: perfume and violence in a Sicilian cemetery; 5. Trade and the consumption of travel; 6. Art, design and the constitutive imagination in the early city state.

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A contribution to recent debates on emerging Greek city states in the first millennium BC.

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'Shanks's is a fascinating book which … is produced to the extremely high standard that we have come to expect from this series … it fascinates precisely because of the rich detailed data of which it gives glimpses.' Journal of Hellenic Studies

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