By Anthony J. Papalas

Description

This is the only English-language book-length study of ancient Icaria and its people. It traces the history of the island in five different periods and is beautifully illustrated with photographs of key sites and monuments. Also included are an appendix listing the island's main inscriptions and a select bibliography.

Comments and Reviews

It is this reviewer's opinion that Ancient Icaria has a degree of uniqueness uncommon to conventional historiography. It deals with an area where life and social evolution through the centuries had neither a power base as states go, nor prominence in the creation of culture, art, and new knowledge. As a result of not being a doer, the Icarian remained a responder whose collective history was a perennial adjustment—for self preservation's sake—to the endless power play taking place in its surroundings, where, coincidentally, the very roots of western civilization were first planted.

—Nicholas D. Diamantides Modern Greek Studies Yearbook