Greece & Rome
Please note - the books listed here are print editions. Click on the thumbnails to see ebook buying options.
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Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography [eBook (PDF)]
Susanna Harris(Editor); Cecilie Brøns(Editor); Marta Zuchowska(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789257243
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 38
This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reli... .... Learn More -
Cities as Palimpsests?: Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism [eBook (PDF)]
Elizabeth Key Fowden(Editor); Suna Çağaptay(Editor); Edward Zychowicz-Coghill(Editor); Louise Blanke(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789257700
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Impact of the Ancient City
Volume: 1
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see... .... Learn More -
Dynamic Epigraphy - When poetry comes to its senses: inscribed Roman verse and the human sensorium: New Approaches to Inscriptions (chapter 7) [eBook (PDF)]
Eleri H. Cousins(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789257915
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epi... .... Learn More -
Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid [eBook (PDF)]
Sofia Greaves(Editor); Andrew Wallace-Hadrill(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789257823
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Impact of the Ancient City
Volume: 3
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, di... .... Learn More -
Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City [eBook (PDF)]
Javier Martínez Jiménez(Editor); Sam Ottewill-Soulsby(Editor)
£0.00ISBN: 9781789258189
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Impact of the Ancient City
Volume: 2
The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Sel... .... 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 -
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 -
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: A Retrospective [Paperback]
Jack L. Davis (Editor); John Bennet (Editor)
£50.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9780876619681
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and hist... .... Learn More -
Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth's Northern Cemetery [Hardback]
Kathleen Warner Slane (Author)
£130.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9780876610220
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Corinth
Volume: 21
Rescue excavations were carried out along the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson, the director of the Corinth Excavations, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens on behalf of the Greek Archaeological Service, in 196... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Greek Farmstead [Paperback]
Maeve McHugh (Author)
£36.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785706400
Published by : Oxbow Books
The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type i... .... Learn More
