Urbanization and the Emergence of the Greek Polis: The Case of Azoria, Crete
Creator:
Fitzsimons, R. D.
Date of publication:
2014
Abstract Tesim:
Perhaps the most striking development accompanying the emergence of the Greek
city-state (ca. 1200-480 BC) was the appearance of new urban centers whose form,
contents, and construction provided the most visible and effective means of creating,
reinforcing, and symbolizing the social, political, and economic relationships
that characterized the new polis system. Excavations at the site of Azoria (East
Crete) have brought to light an unparalleled collection of architectural data, largely
unobscured by later activities, that provides one of the best opportunities to study
the architectural correlates of urbanization in the Greek world. This paper explores
three levels of the built environment at Azoria - the domestic, the civic, and the
urb.an - and demonstrates that the architectural landscape of the nascent city-state
not only served to reflect the dramatic social and political developments that accompanied
the emergence of the polis, but in effect, also functioned a.s an active agent
in their creation.
Resource type:
Part of Book
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Digital Collection:
Azoria Project Archive
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/7w8q-qc15
Journal Title:
Making Ancient Cities: Studies of the Production of Space in Early Urban Environments
Excavations at Azoria, 2003-2004, Part 1: The Archaic Civic Complex
Creator:
Scarry, C. M., Fitzsimons, R. D., Haggis, D. C., West, W. C., Snyder, L. M., Stephanakis, E., and Mook, M. S.
Date of publication:
2007
Abstract Tesim:
This article constitutes the first of two reports on fieldwork conducted at Azoria in eastern Crete during the 2003 and 2004 excavation seasons. The focus of excavation was on the South Acropolis, where buildings of Archaic date (7th-early 5th century b.c.) suggesting public or civic functions have come to light. The complex includes a possible andreion on the west slope, a cult building on the terrace south of the peak, and storerooms and kitchens associated with a monumental public building on the southwest terrace. A 3rd-century b.c. dump on the southeast slope provides important information about the limited reoccupation of the site in the Hellenistic period.
Resource type:
Article
Affiliation Label Tesim:
College of Arts and Sciences
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Digital Collection:
Azoria Project Archive
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/3rzm-wy93
Identifier:
https://doi.org/10.2972/hesp.76.2.243
Journal Title:
Hesperia
Journal Volume:
76
Language Label:
English
ORCID:
Other Affiliation:
Page End:
321
Page Start:
243
Person:
Scarry, C. M., Fitzsimons, R. D., Haggis, D. C., West, W. C., Snyder, L. M., Stephanakis, E., and Mook, M. S.
Excavation of an Archaic City at Azoria in Eastern Crete
Creator:
Haggis, D. C. and Mook, M. S.
Date of publication:
2013
Resource type:
Part of Book
Affiliation Label Tesim:
Department of Classics
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Digital Collection:
Azoria Project Archive
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/k94z-zs50
Journal Title:
Kreta in der geometrischen und archaischen Zeit: Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums am Deutschen Archaeologischen Institut, Abteilung Athen 27.-29. Januar 2006
We began digging at Azoria in 2002, with the goal of studying the development of an Early Iron Age (EIA) and Archaic settlement on Crete. We shaped our research design to fit the language of culture-history narratives of urbanization, polis formation, and Archaic political economies, along the way, engaging questions of the early Greek household, the development of political architecture, and the relationship between sociopolitical organization and resource mobilization (Haggis et alii 2011a; 2011b). This paper reflects on the results of the past decade of fieldwork while integrating results of recent excavation at the site.
Resource type:
Part of Book
Affiliation Label Tesim:
Department of Classics
Type:
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
Digital Collection:
Azoria Project Archive
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17615/xpz3-vy31
Journal Title:
Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation. Lectures at UCLouvain
Language Label:
English
ORCID:
Other Affiliation:
Page End:
139
Page Start:
119
Person:
Haggis, D. C.
Place of Publication:
Louvain-na-Neuve
Publisher:
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Rights Statement Label:
In Copyright
Series:
Aegis: Actes de colloques 2014: La naissance de cites cretoises, vol. 7