Greece & the Hellenistic World
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Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean [Hardback]
Guy D. Middleton (Editor)
£60.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254259
Published by : Oxbow Books
The years c. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterised as a time of crisis and collapse. A critical period in the long history of the region and its people and culture, they witnessed the end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, with ... .... Learn More -
The Masons' Marks of Minoan Knossos [Hardback]
Sinclair Hood (Author); Lisa Bendall (Editor)
£130.00ISBN: 9780904887716
Published by : British School at Athens
Series: BSA Supplementary Volume
Volume: 49
The signs known as ‘masons’ marks’ were carved on blocks of stone in Bronze Age Crete over a period of some 500 years from around 2000 BC until the middle of the 15th century bc. The earliest examples seem to occur at Knossos, dating from the time... .... Learn More -
Vrysaki: A Neighborhood Lost in Search of the Athenian Agora [Hardback]
Sylvie Dumont (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9780876619698
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than 5,000 inhabitants were displaced and 348 properties were torn down so... .... Learn More -
Ottoman Athens: Archaeology, Topography, History [Hardback]
Maria Georgopoulou (Editor); Konstantinos Thanasakis (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9789609994538
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
A joint publication of the Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Ottoman Athens is the first volume to focus on the Ottoman presence in Athens. This collection of 12 essays explores the architecture, antiquities, cartography,... .... Learn More -
Ottoman Athens: Archaeology, Topography, History [Paperback]
Maria Georgopoulou (Editor); Konstantinos Thanasakis (Editor)
£24.95ISBN: 9789609994545
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
A joint publication of the Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Ottoman Athens is the first volume to focus on the Ottoman presence in Athens. This collection of 12 essays explores the architecture, antiquities, cartography,... .... Learn More -
Death in Mycenaean Laconia: A Silent Place [Hardback]
Chrysanthi Gallou (Author)
£48.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789252422
Published by : Oxbow Books
A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean to... .... Learn More -
Deliciae Fictiles V. Networks and Workshops: Architectural Terracottas and Decorative Roof Systems in Italy and Beyond [Hardback]
Patricia Lulof (Editor); Ilaria Manzini (Editor); Carlo Rescigno (Editor)
£60.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253108
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Deliciae Fictiles
Volume: 5
Temples are the most prestigious buildings in the urban landscape of ancient Italy, emerging within a network of centres of the then-known Mediterranean world. Notwithstanding the fragmentary condition of the buildings’ remains, these monuments – ... .... Learn More -
Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient mediterranean world [Paperback]
Michela Spataro (Editor); Alexandra Villing (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253412
Published by : Oxbow Books
The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but lon... .... Learn More -
Glass of the Roman World [Paperback]
Justine Bayley (Editor); Ian Freestone (Editor); Caroline Jackson (Editor)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253399
Published by : Oxbow Books
Glass of the Roman World illustrates the arrival of new cultural systems, mechanisms of trade and an expanded economic base in the early 1st millennium AD which, in combination, allowed the further development of the existing glass industry. Glass... .... Learn More -
The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece [Paperback]
Jennifer Roberts (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780190940881
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking year... .... Learn More
