By John Bintliff, Emeri Farinetti & Anthony Snodgrass

The urban and rural survey of the Greco-Roman town of Hyettos in Boeotia provides powerful insights into the rise and decline of a typical small city-state in a well-defined landscape. We follow village beginnings from Neolithic, early-farming times through the Bronze Age and into the dramatic appearance of the city in the Archaic era. Following an early Hellenistic climax the town and its countryside are transformed to a lesser agglomeration by the Imperial Roman period. After Late Antiquity and the final abandonment of the city, the survey reveals a return to a landscape of small rural communities, with a final reorganization into the present village network. Throughout, the volume combines archaeological surface ceramic survey with architectural study, geology and soil science, geophysics, geochemistry, aerial photography, and a steadily richer documentary record.

• Complete volume - Boeotia Project, Volume III: Hyettos. The origins, florescence and afterlife of a small Boeotian city
• Introduction - Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Hyettos: the historical background
• Chapter 2 - The survey methodology
• Chapter 3 - The analysis of the Hyettos rural landscape (i): the zoning of the off-site finds
• Chapter 4 - The analysis of the Hyettos rural landscape (ii): the CN rural sites
• Chapter 5 - The city site of Hyettos: analysis of the urban survey ceramics
• Chapter 6 - Geology, geomorphology, geoarchaeology and land-use potential
• Chapter 7 - Soil geochemistry in archaeology, with an evaluation of a long-term programme of trace metal analysis at the ancient cities of Hyettos and Thespiai
• Chapter 8 - The geophysical survey at Hyettos
• Chapter 9 - Hyettos: the architectural traces at the urban centre
• Chapter 10 - Glimpses of history: Hyettos and its epigraphic testimonies
• Chapter 11 - Prehistoric Hyettos
• Chapter 12 - The pottery of the Early Iron Age to the Hellenistic Period
• Chapter 13 - Urban and rural Hyettos: Late Hellenistic to Late Roman pottery
• Chapter 14 - A household archaeology and history of Hyettos and its territory: the Byzantine to Early Modern pottery
• Chapter 15 - Three settlements in northern Boeotia in the Ottoman and early modern Greek periods, 1460–1879
• Chapter 16 - Synthesis: the development of the town and countryside of Hyettos from the survey evidence
• Chapter 17 - Hyettos, city and countryside: conclusions
• Appendix
• Bibliography