Author: Merle K. LangdonPublisher: ASCSA
ISBN: 9780876615164
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos
Author: Merle K. LangdonPublisher: ASCSA
ISBN: 9780876615164
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
Author: Gloria S. MerkerPublisher: ASCSA
ISBN: 9780876611845
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
About 24,000 figurines and fragments have been found on Acrocorinth, and this study greatly increases our understanding of the way in which this artform developed over the centuries.
Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator
Author: David W. J. GillPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784918806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The first comprehensive biography of pioneering archaeologist and museum curator Winnifred Lamb, who was honorary keeper of Greek antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the four decades immediately following the First World War.
Telamonian Ajax
Author: Sophie Marianne BocksbergerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198864760
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. Bocksberger's study focuses on the Panhellenic figure of Ajax in early Greek hexameter poetry and archaic art, in the art of archaic and classical Aegina, and in the art of archaic and classical Athens.
Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece
Author: Michael LoyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009343815
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Employs experimental data modelling on archaeological data to reveal new patterns about the seventh and sixth centuries BC.
The Symposium in Context
Author: Kathleen M. LynchPublisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN: 1621390055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery also reflects purchasing patterns and thematic preferences of the homeowner. The multifaceted approach adopted in this book shows that meaning and use are inherently related, and that through archaeology one can restore a context of use for a class of objects frequently studied in isolation.
Families in the Greco-Roman World
Author: Ray LaurencePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441139273
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
New approaches to the study of the family in antiquity.
Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth
Author: Michael D. DixonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317676491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth, 338-196 B.C. challenges the perception that the Macedonians' advent and continued presence in Corinth amounted to a loss of significance and autonomy. Immediately after Chaironeia, Philip II and his son Alexander III established close relations with Corinth and certain leading citizens on the basis of goodwill (eunoia). Mutual benefits and respect characterized their discourse throughout the remainder of the early Hellenistic period; this was neither a period of domination or decline, nor one in which the Macedonians deprived Corinthians of their autonomy. Instead, Corinth flourished while the Macedonians possessed the city. It was the site of a vast building program, much of which must be construed as the direct result of Macedonian patronage, evidence suggests strongly that those Corinthians who supported the Macedonians enjoyed great prosperity under them. Corinth's strategic location made it an integral part of the Macedonians' strategy to establish and maintain hegemony over the mainland Greek peninsula after Philip II's victory at Chaironeia. The Macedonian dynasts and kings who later possessed Corinth also valued its strategic position, and they regarded it as an essential component in their efforts to claim legitimacy due to its association with the Argead kings, Philip II and Alexander III the Great, and the League of Corinth they established. This study explicates the nature of the relationship between Corinthians and Macedonians that developed in the aftermath of Chaironeia, through the defeat at the battle of Kynoskephalai and the declaration of Greek Freedom at Isthmia in 196 B.C. Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth is not simply the history of a single polis; it draws upon the extant literary, epigraphic, prosopographic, topographic, numismatic, architectural, and archaeological evidence to place Corinth within broader Hellenistic world. This volume, the full first treatment of the city in this period, contributes significantly to the growing body of scholarly literature focusing on the Hellenistic world and is a crucial resource for specialists in late Classical and early Hellenistic history.
Racialized Commodities
Author: Christopher Stedman ParmenterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197757111
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Between c. 700-300 BCE, the ancient Greeks developed a vivid imaginary of the world's peoples. Ranging from the light-skinned, "gray-eyed Thracians" of the distant north to the "dark-skinned Ethiopians" of the far south (as the poet Xenophanes would describe around 540 BCE), Greeks envisioned a world populated by human groups with distinct physiognomies. Racialized Commodities traces how Greece's 'racial imaginary'-a confluence of thinking about cultural geography, commodity production, and human physiognomy-emerged out of the context of cross-cultural trade between Greece and its Mediterranean neighbors over the Archaic and Classical Periods. For merchants, the racial imaginary might be used to play up the 'exotic' provenance of their goods to consumers; it might also circulate practical information about customs, pricing, navigation, and doing business in foreign ports. Archaic Greek attempts to explain foreign bodies were rarely pejorative. But at in the early Classical Period-as Achaemenid Persia loomed, and as Greek cities became increasingly dependent on enslaved labor-such images coalesced into the charged, idea of the barbaros, 'barbarian.' Drawing from the historiography of trade in the eighteenth century Atlantic world, Racialized Commodities adopts the model of 'commodity biography' to investigate the entanglement of cultures, bodies, and things in Archaic and Classical Greece. Starting in the period c. 700-450 BCE, Part 1 focuses on the earliest images of African peoples, described by Greeks as Egyptians or Ethiopians, in Greek art. Part 2, which concentrates on the period between 550-300 BCE, seeks to explain how and why negative stereotypes of Thracians and Scythians were so widespread in ancient Greece"--
Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Konstantinos KapparisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110557959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Prostitution in the ancient Greek world was widespread, legal, and acceptable as a fact of life and an unavoidable necessity. The state regulated the industry and treated prostitution as any other trade. Almost every prominent man in the ancient world has been truly or falsely associated with some famous hetaira. These women, who sold their affections to the richest and most influential men of their time, have become legends in their own right. They pushed the boundaries of female empowerment in their quest for self-promotion and notoriety, and continue to fascinate us. Prostitution remains a complex phenomenon linked to issues of gender, culture, law, civic ideology, education, social control, and economic forces. This is why its study is of paramount importance for our understanding of the culture, outlook and institutions of the ancient world, and in turn it can shed new light and introduce new perspectives to the challenging debate of our times on prostitution and contemporary sexual morality. The main purpose of this book is to provide the primary historical study of the topic with emphasis upon the separation of facts from the mythology surrounding the countless references to prostitution in Greek literary sources.