Commemorating conflict : Greek monuments of the Persian Wars /
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A holistic study of how the Greek peoples (of primarily the classical period) collectively commemorated the Persian Wars. This work analyses commemorative objects, places, and groups for a complete representation of the commemorative tradition.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (viii, 210 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784918408 (ebook) :
Practices of personal adornment in Neolithic Greece /
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The objective of this text is the reconsideration of the practices of personal adornment during the Neolithic period in Greece, through the assemblage, extensive bibliographic documentation, and critical evaluation of all the available data deriving from more than a hundred sites in the mainland and the Aegean islands.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (xxxvi, 596 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789691146 (ebook) :
A landscape of conflict? : rural fortifications in the Argolid (400-146 BC) /
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This is a systematic study of Late Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications in ancient Argos and the city-states of the Argolic Akte. Based on one of the largest regional corpora of Greek fortified sites, the volume investigates the function of rural fortifications by placing them in the context of their surrounding landscape.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789699715 (PDF ebook) :
Individuals and society in Mycenaean Pylos /
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This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, circa 1200 BC. It argues that conventional models of Mycenaean society, which focus on administrative titles and terms, can be improved through the study of named individuals. A new, methodologically innovative prosopography demonstrates that many named individuals were not only important managers of palatial affairs but also high-ranking members of the community. This work significantly broadens the elite class and suggests that the palace was less of an agent in its own right than an institutional framework for interactions amongst individuals and social groups.
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1 online resource (xvii, 448 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004251465 :
0169-8958 ; :
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Aitolian prosopographical studies /
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This aim of this work is to provide part of the basis for the study of a widely misunderstood people of Ancient Greece, the Aitolians. It is the people of any society who are its constituents, and only when we know who they were and what they did can that society be properly investigated. By accumulating a list of all known Aitolians, their origins, parentage, their place in the society, and any other details discoverable, it is possible to reconstitute Aitolian families, and to study various sections and aspects of their society. The prosopography and the studies based on it form part of the essential background for the author's history of The League of the Aitolians (published by Brill earlier in 1999), and they also form a contribution to the study of the society which was Ancient Greece.
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1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004351189 :
0169-8958 ; :
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Sounion revisited : the santuaries of Poseidon and Athena at Sounion in Attica /
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This work is the first to be published from a wider research project, still in progress, about the sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena on the promontory of Sounion (southeast Attica). The aim of this volume is to present, for the first time, a comprehensive examination and interpretation of a wide selection of unpublished small finds.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911553 (PDF ebook) :
Athens and Attica in prehistory : proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27-31 May 2015 /
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This resource provides the most complete overview of the Attica region from the Neolithic to the end of the Late Bronze Age. It paves the way for a new understanding of Attica in the Early Iron Age and indirectly throws new light on the origins of what will later become the polis of the Athenians.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (698 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696721 (ebook) :
Execution by Styrax in ancient Thasos /
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Sharing in the objectives of an ongoing archaeo-anthropological endeavour, aiming to better decipher and elucidate facets of the human condition while carrying out funerary archaeological research of Hellenistic to Roman periods family graves at the extensive ancient necropolis of Thasos, the most northern Aegean island, this essay addresses a case of unique forensic / bioarchaeological interest involving an older male individual, a member of one of the clusters of burials, who had been placed as a single interment in a most conspicuous limestone cyst grave of the Hellenistic period.
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Also issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (vi, 40 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789692136 (e-Pdf) : :
Open access.
Corinth in contrast : studies in inequality /
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In Corinth in Contrast , archaeologists, historians, art historians, classicists, and New Testament scholars examine the stratified nature of socio-economic, political, and religious interactions in the city from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. The volume challenges standard social histories of Corinth by focusing on the unequal distribution of material, cultural, and spiritual resources. Specialists investigate specific aspects of cultural and material stratification such as commerce, slavery, religion, marriage and family, gender, and art, analyzing both the ruling elite of Corinth and the non-elite Corinthians who made up the majority of the population. This approach provides insight into the complex networks that characterized every ancient urban center and sets an agenda for future studies of Corinth and other cities rule by Rome.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004261310 :
0167-9732 ;
Kymissala : archaeology - education - sustainability /
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Kymissala, on the southwest coast of Rhodes, is an area of great archaeological interest. Here, after ten years of systematic research, in terms of archaeology, education and sustainable development, 14 original studies are presented, constituting the first complete presentation of the area of Kymissala and the work in progress.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917692 (ebook) :
Settlement and land use on the periphery : the Bouros-Kastri Peninsula, Southern Euboia /
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This survey by the Southern Euboea Exploration Project provides a wealth of intriguing information about fluctuations in long-term use and habitation in the Bouros-Kastri peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the Greek island of Euboia, and how the peninsula's use was connected to that of the main urban centre at Karystos.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784918200 (ebook) :
Social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese : the evidence from burials /
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Classical and Hellenistic cemeteries can give us more than descriptions and styles of pottery, art and burial architecture; they can speak of people, societies, social conventions as well as of social distinctions. This book aims to employ and illustrate the unique strengths of burial evidence and its contribution to the understanding of social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784915070 (ebook) :
To die in style! : the residential lifestyle of feasting and dying In Iron Age, Stamna, Greece /
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This volume investigates the culture of feasting and the rituals of death among elite citizens in Iron Age Stamna, Greece, by studying archaeological finds from a large number of Protogeometric era tombs.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784919368 (ebook) :
L'oblique dans le monde Grec : concept et imagerie /
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What could be more evident than the concepts of oblique, horizontal or vertical? In the modern world, these concepts form the basis of our thought system, both from a mathematical and artistic point of view. Everything would suggest that these principles were known to the Greek civilization. However, the study of the surviving texts casts a different light on the matter. Homer did not know the concept of oblique - no word could translate it into the language of his time. Even later, the Greeks had five adjectives approximately meaning oblique. Each discipline (cosmology, optic, geography, art, etc.) had its own way of looking at these five words. This work examines this topic.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911409 (PDF ebook) :
Xerxes' Greek adventure : the naval perspective /
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This volume deals with Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480 B.C.), particularly as a naval operation. It examines the traditions preserved by Aischylos, Herodotos, and others against the background of the revolutionary naval developments in the period preceding Xerxes' decision to attack. Among the subjects discussed are: the naval pressure on Persian foreign policy; the strength in numbers of the Persian navy in 480; its deployment in the waters of Salamis related to the physical features of the battlefield and the position of the Greeks; Themistokles' legendary message as a key to the Persian plan of attack; the quality of the opposing ships and their tactical capabilities; the battle of Salamis itself and its outcome. The book includes maps and a photograph of the area discussed.
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1 online resource (x, 174 pages) : maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-162) and indexes. :
9789047406549 :
0169-8958 ; :
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Athenian generals : military authority in the classical period /
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This study of the Athenian strategia is concerned with identifying the locus of military authority in the Athenian polis . Consideration of the role played by generals in the deliberative and final stages of military expeditions and of the relationship between strategoi and their subordinates, colleagues, and the Athenian demos itself suggests that Athens' generals did not exercise significant authority over their city's military operations. Rather, the demos controlled its generals both by means of its direct involvement in decision-making related to campaigns and by establishing in Athens a climate of fear which was very often sufficient to dissuade generals from acting in opposition to the Athenians' will. This volume is important reading for anyone who is interested in ancient military history or the question of sovereignty in Athens.
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1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index. :
9789004351486 :
0169-8958. Supplementum ; :
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Valuing others in classical antiquity /
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How does a discourse of 'valuing others' help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people 'belong together', as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as fellow human beings. Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. In eighteen chapters, ranging from Greek tragedy to the Roman gladiators and from house architecture to the concept of friendship, this book demonstrates how such behavior is anchored and promoted by culturally specific expressions of evaluative discourse. Valuing others in classical antiquity should be of interest to linguists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers alike.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004192331 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The birth and development of the idealized concept of Arcadia in the ancient world /
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Bringing together for the first time all the available evidence for the origination and development of the concept of Arcadia, from the Homeric period to the early Roman Empire, this book brings to light a treasure-trove of evidence, both well-known and obscure or fragmentary, filling a significant gap in the scholarly bibliography.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803271651 (PDF ebook) :
The death of the maiden in classical Athens /
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This study examines the death of maidens in classical Athens, combining the study of Attic funerary iconography with research on classical Attic maiden burials, funerary inscriptions, tragic plays, as well as the relevant Attic myths. The iconography of funerary reliefs focuses on the idealised image of the deceased maiden, as well as the powerful bonds of love and kinship that unite her with the members of her family, whereas the iconography of vases emphasises the premature death of the maiden, the pain of loss and mourning felt by her family, as well as the observance of the indispensable funerary rites concerning her burial and 'tomb cult'.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784915476 (ebook) :