Archaeology

ISBN: 9780876615454
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Hesperia Supplement
Volume: 45
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C. This new chronological foundation of datable... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783895006555
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: Archaologische Forschungen
Volume: 26
The study investigates the appearance and further development of architectural orders in the major Greek colonies in the North Pontus, especially in the main cities Tyras, Olbia, Chersonesos and Pantikapaion. Special attention is paid to the qu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781857596069
Published by : Scala Publishers
This is a lavishly illustrated catalogue of the finest Greek Vases in the state museums of Berlin. As the title suggests, a number of the vases selected depict mythological scenes, but this is by no means exclusively the case - depictions of da... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405199001
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Ionia is a region ill-served by general works in English, particularly for the formative archaic period when it was at its peak. This survey, explicitly archaeology rather than literary, aims to use the growing mass of data from excavations in ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515093316
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Beneath the shining world of the citizen of Classical Athens was the perilous shadow-realm of the resident foreigner, the metic. Emblematic of the status of metic was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. And if a metic fai... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521191265
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Michael Scott was recently acclaimed for his BBC4 series Guilty Pleasures: Luxury in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds , but his media work is complemented by serious scholarship. This study of the sacred spaces at Delphi and Olympia seeks to go ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199578658
Published by : Oxford University Press
Komast figures (literally `revellers') on black-figure vases have long been associated with the worship of Dionysos and the origins of Greek drama. In this fully illustrated study, Tyler Jo Smith takes a fresh look at the evidence for komasts, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407305509
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This two volume set reports on excavations at the important Classical site of Apollonia, in Albania. The burials in the complex are identified as predominantly high-status, with grave goods found in every preserved tomb. The excavations also u... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904675747
Published by : Bristol Phoenix Press
Combining archaeological and textual evidence, this engaging book reassesses the classical Greek house, asking us to think again about a wide range of issues, including, fundamentally, how a house might be defined by ancient Greeks. Morgan pres... .... Learn More