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Reading social change on a potter's wheel: Chalcis (Euboea) from the Byzantine to the Modern Greek era
Nikos D. Kontogiannis, Stefania S. Skartsis
Journal:

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies / Volume 45 / Issue 2 / October 2021

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

28 June 2021, pp. 199-221

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October 2021
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In this article, the socio-economic and cultural identity of Chalcis is traced through, and combined with, the story of its material culture and, in particular, of its impressive pottery production and consumption. Through this lens, the historical conditions and daily life over more than ten centuries (from the ninth to the early twentieth century) of this relatively unknown provincial town are closely examined. This makes it possible to detect one field in which local communities reacted to, adjusted to, took advantage of, survived or sometimes succumbed to the wider turmoil of the Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek eras.

20b - Greek Alphabetic Writing
from PART III - THE BALKANS AND THE AEGEAN
- By L. H. Jeffery, University of Oxford
Edited by John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger
Book:

The Cambridge Ancient History

Published online:

28 March 2008

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05 August 1982, pp 819-833
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The earliest Greek inscriptions come from the city-states which edged both sides of the Aegean, and from their respective colonies; thus the alphabet seems to have spread primarily along the sea trade-routes. It is now clear from excavations that the Euboic Greeks at least had already got their alphabet not later than the mid eighth century, and that North Syria may be the area whence both Greek and Phrygian scripts derive. But in general the Greek alterations and additions to the Semitic alphabet appear to be comparatively few - an economy maintained also by later receivers of the alphabet. The earliest existing Greek inscriptions are public statements; they explain some object, or intention, to a reading public. A specific connexion between Greek and Phrygian centred on Cyme in Aeolis. At the Greek end, Euboea has produced inscribed local Geometric pottery, using the long s, in strata of c. 750 onwards.

18b - The Islands
from PART III - THE BALKANS AND THE AEGEAN
- By John Boardman, University of Oxford
Edited by John Boardman, I. E. S. Edwards, N. G. L. Hammond, E. Sollberger
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The Cambridge Ancient History

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28 March 2008

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05 August 1982, pp 754-778
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Euboea had little to offer for the history of Greece in the Bronze Age, but there had been major settlements at Chalcis, Lefkandi and Amarynthus and plentiful evidence for occupation elsewhere. There are several references in ancient authors to armed conflict between Eretria and Chalcis and this is now generally placed in the later eighth century. The islands of the Cyclades rise from a comparatively shallow shelf, an extension of the mainland of Attica and of the island Euboea. In the Bronze Age Crete dominated the history of the Aegean world. In later centuries its history was distinguished but idiosyncratic, dependent more on response to intercourse with other lands, Greek and non-Greek, less on the exploitation of its own notable natural resources. Crete is the largest of the Greek islands as close to the shores of Libya as to the Piraeus; this ease of access to the coast of Africa played a part in its history.