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Author : Merle K. Langdon
Publisher : ASCSA
ISBN 13 : 9780876615164
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos written by Merle K. Langdon and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1976 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gloria S. Merker
Publisher : ASCSA
ISBN 13 : 9780876611845
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore written by Gloria S. Merker and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David W. J. Gill
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784918806
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator written by David W. J. Gill and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sophie Marianne Bocksberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198864760
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Telamonian Ajax written by Sophie Marianne Bocksberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Michael Loy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009343815
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece written by Michael Loy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employs experimental data modelling on archaeological data to reveal new patterns about the seventh and sixth centuries BC.
Author : Kathleen M. Lynch
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 1621390055
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Symposium in Context written by Kathleen M. Lynch and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Ray Laurence
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441139273
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Families in the Greco-Roman World written by Ray Laurence and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New approaches to the study of the family in antiquity.
Author : Michael D. Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317676491
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth written by Michael D. Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Christopher Stedman Parmenter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197757111
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Racialized Commodities written by Christopher Stedman Parmenter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--
Author : Konstantinos Kapparis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110557959
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World written by Konstantinos Kapparis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Irad Malkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317991141
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean written by Irad Malkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Bringing together some of the most active and prominent researchers in ancient history, this book moves beyond political institutions, ethnic, and geographical boundaries in order to observe the ancient Mediterranean through a perspective of network interaction. It employs a wide range of approaches, and to examine relationships and interactions among various social entities in the Mediterranean. Chronologically, the book extends from the early Iron Age to the late Antique world, covering the Mediterranean between Antioch in the east to Massalia (Marseilles) in the west. This book was published as two special issues in Mediterranean Historical Review.
Author : Gloria Ferrari
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226244369
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Figures of Speech written by Gloria Ferrari and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two hundred years, thousands of ancient Greek vases have been unearthed. Yet these artifacts remain a challenge: what did the images depicted on these vases actually mean to ancient Greek viewers? In this long-awaited book, Gloria Ferrari uses Athenian vases, literary evidence, and other works of art from the Archaic and Classical periods (520-400 B.C.) to investigate what these items can tell us about the ancient Greeks—specifically, their notions of gender. Ferrari begins by developing a theoretical perspective on visual representation, arguing that artistic images give us access to how their subjects were imagined rather than to the way they really were. For instance, Ferrari's examinations of the many representations of women working wool reveal that these images constitute powerful metaphors—metaphors, she argues, which both reflect and construct Greek conceptions of the ideal woman and her ideal behavior. From this perspective, Ferrari studies a number of icons representing blameless femininity and ideal masculinity to reevaluate the rites of passage by which girls are made ready for marriage and boys become men. Representations of the nude male body in Archaic statues known as kouroi, for example, symbolize manhood itself and shed new light on the much-discussed institution of paiderastia. And, in Ferrari's hands, imagery equating maidens with arable land and buried treasure provides a fresh view of Greek ideas of matrimony. Innovative, thought-provoking, and insightful throughout, Figures of Speech is a powerful demonstration of how the study of visual images as well as texts can reshape our understanding of ancient Greek culture.
Author : Electra Apostola
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803273771
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Current Research in Egyptology 2021 written by Electra Apostola and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15 Egyptological and Papyrological papers investigate a great variety of issues, including social and religious aspects of life in ancient Egypt, ritual and magic, language and literature, ideology of death, demonology, the iconographical tradition, and intercultural relations, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to the Coptic period.
Author : Sara Chiarini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004371206
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases written by Sara Chiarini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first extensive survey of the ancient Greek painters’ practice of writing nonsense on vases, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases by Sara Chiarini provides a systematic overview of the linguistic features of the phenomenon and discusses its forms and contexts of reception. While the origins of the practice lie in the impaired literacy of the painters involved in it, the extent of the phenomenon suggests that, at some point, it became a true fashion within Attic vase painting. This raises the question of the forms of interaction with this epigraphic material. An open approach is adopted: “reading” attempts, riddles and puns inspired by nonsense inscriptions could happen in a variety of circumstances, including the symposium but not limited to it.
Author : K.A. Rask
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000869881
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion written by K.A. Rask and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and makers of Greek religion. A range of perspectives, such as those of Archaic mariners and Late Classical weaving women, show that religion infused the daily lives of ancient Greeks. Chapters visit the many spaces where people engaged in religious activities, from household kitchens to international emporia, as well as shrines both large and small. The book also interrogates devotional activities such as making votives and engaging in lifelong relationships with divinities, arguing for the emotionally rich character of Greek lived religion. Not only do these considerations demonstrate underexplored ways for reconstructing aspects of Greek religion, but also allow us to rethink familiar subjects such as votive portraits and epiphany from new angles. Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion is of interest to students and scholars working on ancient Greek religion and archeology, as well as anyone interested in daily life and lived experience in the ancient world.
Author : Hans van Wees
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589292
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book War and Violence in Ancient Greece written by Hans van Wees and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Greek warfare should involve much more than reconstructing the experience of combat or revisiting the great wars of the classical period. Here, a distinguished cast of international scholars explores beyond the usual thematic and chronological boundaries. Ranging from the heroes of Homer to the kings and cities of the hellenistic age, the contributors set war in the context of other forms of Greek violence, private and public. At every turn they challenge received ideas about the causes and conduct of war, its development and its place in Greek society and culture.
Author : Nicola Ruggieri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 103640238X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Wooden Carpentry of Roofs in Mediterranean Antiquity written by Nicola Ruggieri and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truss adopts the rational configuration of the non-deformable triangle, optimizing the exploitation of the wooden members’ resistance resources. It is an extremely efficient structural typology that has gone through the centuries in its almost primitive configuration without substantial modifications, for which finding comparisons in the history of construction is difficult. But when was the truss born? This is the first general-interest book to address this question. Using scant but precious ancient literary documentation, the archaeological finds and the iconography of the figurative products that reproduce roofs, the book traces the gradual evolution process of the roof carpentry that led to such an invention. New hypotheses are advanced on the technical achievements of the main Mediterranean civilizations – Egyptian, Minoan and Mycenaean, Phrygian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman – in a broad and ambitious excursion that crosses the whole of Antiquity. The book is accompanied by a rich illustrative apparatus that includes historical and original photographs as well as numerous explanatory drawings.
