The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume I: Argos to Corcyra - Hardcoverby Paul Cartledge (Editor), Paul Christesen (Editor) The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own