Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people.

Seeks to balance the Greek and Anatolian cultural influences at work in Ionia in this important period of its history (700BC to the Battle of Lade in 494BC)
Organised thematically, covering landscape, economy, cities, colonisation, warfare, cult, and art
Accesses German and Turkish scholarship, presenting a useful point of entry to the published literature for academics and students