This study examines Boiotia in the Geometric and Archaic periods (ca. 1050-500 BC), concentrating on three aspects in particular, namely population, settlement, and colonisation. A brief chapter introduces the reader to Boiotia, the setting, which gives the relevant background to later developments. In chapter II, it is argued that Boiotia participated rather extensively in emigration during the Dark Age, leaving the homeland, with the exception of a few refuge settlements, somewhat denuded of its previous population. The following chapter not only builds on this latter point archaeologically but also looks at the development of settlement, focusing primarily on the fact that settlement, and presumably population, grew steadily in Boiotia until well into the Classical period. The final chapter is divided into two parts; it first examines the secure cases of Boiotian colonisation and then the doubtful or possible instances. After considering possible socio-political factors, the discussion is taken in another direction. The search for metals is suggested, and the study ends with a plea for a systematic study of whether land-shortage was really as paramount a cause of Greek colonisation as presently believed.

Socrates claimed Daedalus, the mythical first architect, as his ancestor. Taking this as a point of departure, the thesis explores the relationship between architecture and speculative thought, and shows how the latter is grounded in the former. A detailed examination of the Anaximander fragment, the earliest surviving record in Western philosophy, is considered in relation to Anaximander's built work. This three-part cosmic model which included a celestial sphere, the first map of the world, and a sun clock (the gnomon), reveals the fragment to be a theory of the work in that the cosmic order Anaximander was the first to articulate was discovered through the building of the model. The model is seen as comparable to a daidalon, a creation of Daedalus, whose legend reflects the importance of craft in the self-consciousness of archaic Greece where the kosmos (order) of civilization were seen as having emerged with the kosmos allowed to appear through the making of the artifact. Archaic self-consciousness is further examined through the emergence of the Greek city-state (the polis) and in the building of the first peripteral temples, both of which are revealed as necessary antecedents to birth of theory, understood as the wondering admiration of the well-made thing.

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Thesis (master's)--Universität, Hamburg, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-111).

Pr. - Lyceum zu Dillingen. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-146).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-146).

Diss.--Leyden.