Classical Greece
Classical Greece
Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies
£43.99
GBPPaperback
The archaeology of classical Greece developed in the shadow of Greek historical scholarship, and it has restricted itself too modestly to the study of individual artefacts. A wide variety of modern developments in archaeology have been neglected, and classical archaeology has become something of a backwater. The contributors to this book review the history of the field and aim to demonstrate that modern archaeological approaches can contribute to a richer understanding of Greek society. They also insist that this complex, literate and highly unusual system of states poses important questions for archaeologists of other regions.
- Of interest to archaeologists and classical historians
- New approach to the subject
- British and American contributors
Product details
June 1994Paperback
9780521456784
260 pages
246 × 189 × 14 mm
0.47kg
40 b/w illus. 13 maps 13 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Ian Morris
- Part I. History:
- 2. Archaeologies of Greece Ian Morris
- Part II. Artefacts and Objects:
- 3. Protoattic pottery: a contextual approach James Whitley
- 4. The riddle of the sphinx Herbert Hoffmann
- 5. Looking on - Greek style. Does the sculpted girl speak to women too? Robin Osborne
- Part III. Aretefacts as Traded Objects:
- 6. Pots Positivism and long-distance trade David Gill
- 7. Athens, Etruria and Heuneburg: mutual misconceptions in the study of Greek-barbarian relations Karim Arafat, and Catherine Morgan
- Part IV. Artefacts in the Landscape:
- 8. Intensive survey, agricultural practice and the classical landscape of Greece Susan Alcock, John Cherry, and Jack Davis
- 9. Breaking up the Hellenistic world: survey and society Susan Alcock
- Part V. Responses:
- 10. An historian's response Michael Jameson
- 11. An archaeologist's response Anthony Snodgrass.
