The epigraphy and history of Boeotia : new finds, new prospects /
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Over the past 20 years, Boeotia has been the focus of intensive archaeological investigation that has resulted in some extraordinary epigraphical finds. The most spectacular discoveries are presented for the first time in this volume: dozens of inscribed sherds from the Theban shrine of Heracles; Archaic temple accounts; numerous Classical, Hellenistic and Roman epitaphs; a Plataean casualty list; a dedication by the legendary king Croesus. Other essays revisit older epigraphical finds from Aulis, Chaironeia, Lebadeia, Thisbe, and Megara, radically reassessing their chronology and political and legal implications. The integration of old and new evidence allows for a thorough reconsideration of wider historical questions, such as ethnic identities, and the emergence, rise, dissolution, and resuscitation of the famous Boeotian koinon . Contributors include: Vassilios Aravantinos, Hans Beck, Margherita Bonanno, Claire Grenet, Yannis Kalliontzis, Denis Knoepfler, Angelos P. Matthaiou, Emily Mackil, Christel Müller, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Isabelle Pernin, Robert Pitt, Adrian Robu, and Albert Schachter.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004273856 :
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The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus : studies on a Thessalian country shrine /
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Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus is the first book-length study of one of Greece's most cited nymph sanctuaries. The volume includes a revised catalog, extensive new commentaries on the cave's famous inscriptions, and a first-time investigation of the site's topographical and archaeological layout. Also known as Alogopati or Karapla cave, the Pharsalian shrine holds a special place among ancient nymph caves as the only such site to feature an inscribed poetic chronicle of the shrine's foundation and its founder, the mysterious nymph worshipper Pantalces. Based on years of fieldwork and archival research, Cave of the Nymphs challenges some commonly held views about the origin of this rock-cut 'tale' and offers a fresh perspective for understanding the Pharsalian cave in its proper historical context.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004297623 :
1876-2557 ; :
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Thirsty seafarers at Temple B of Kommos : commercial districts and the role of Crete in Phoenician trading networks in the Aegean /
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The island of Crete was an important place for cultural and economic exchanges between Greeks and Near Easterners in the Aegean during the 1st millennium BC. This book aims to understand the Phoenician presence and trade in Aegean temples, as well as how Crete shaped its role within the context of Mediterranean trade routes from East to West.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273235 (PDF ebook) :
Horos Dios : An Athenian Shrine and Cult of Zeus /
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In five chapters this volume 1) offers new evidence for the form, date, and meaning of an Archaic rupestral horos of Zeus on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens, 2) reports and interprets for the first time many rock cuttings as remnants of the shrine of Zeus implied by the horos inscription, 3) argues from scattered artifacts of Zeus found in central and western Athens and from comparative archaeological evidence that this shrine was devoted primarily to the popular cult of Zeus Meilichios, 4) presents evidence and arguments that other deities, including Herakles Alexikakos, were worshipped at this shrine, and 5) summarizes the chronology of this cult and shrine in their historical and topographical contexts. An Appendix assembles all the testimonia to Zeus Meilichios in Attica.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047417392
9789004147416
The lamps of late antiquity from Rhodes : 3rd-7th centuries AD /
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This study focuses on the recording, study and publication of the corpus of the Late Antique lamps dating from the 3rd to the 7th centuries as found in rescue excavations in the town of Rhodes. The aim here is to present the diachronic changes in the artistic sensibility and preferences of this particular market.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (ii, 676 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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9781784917470 (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). :
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9781789691146 (ebook) :
Spolia in fortifications and the common builder in late antiquity /
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Through intensive surveys of three fortifications in late Roman Greece, Frey reveals the untapped potential of spolia in demonstrating the critical role played by non-elites in bringing about the architectural and social changes that mark the end of classical antiquity. As his analysis demonstrates, when studied less as displaced objects to be classified by type and more as evidence for the construction process itself, spolia offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which common builders met the challenge of using pre-existing building materials to meet their contemporary architectural needs. This "bottom-up" approach offers an alternative to the traditional view that attributes change and innovation only to the genius of prominent individuals known to us in historical sources.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004289673 :
2352-8656 ; :
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The early black-figured pottery of Attika in context (c. 630-570 BCE) /
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Setting as a starting point the introduction of the black-figure technique in Attic workshops at around 630 BCE, this book attempts a contextual analysis of Attic pottery until late in the first quarter of the sixth century BCE. The shapes and their functions, as well as the iconographic themes are explored through this perspective. This offers an interesting insight into funerary, cultic and profane activities in Athens and the Attic countryside, which is completed by an extensive study of the trade and distribution of Attic vases during this period. The result is a complete overview of early black-figure Attic production, enabling an afresh archaeological approach to late seventh-and early sixth-century Attic society.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xii]-xxxix) and indexes. :
9789004192317 :
0169-8850 ; :
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Kratos & krater : reconstructing an Athenian protohistory /
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Athenian governance and culture are reconstructed from the Bronze Age into the historical era based on traditions, archaeological contexts and remains, foremost the formal commensal and libation krater. Incorporated into this work is a monograph on the Athenian formal krater used by these primarily Neleid aristocratic houses in assembly and ritual.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784916237 (ebook) :
Great waterworks in Roman Greece : aqueducts and monumental fountain structures : function in context /
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A presentation of large scale waterworks in the Greek provinces of the Roman Empire. As a collective work, it brings together a wide body of experts from the newly emerged and expanding field of water technology and water archaeology in Roman Greece, and it fills an essential gap in archaeological research.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784917654 (ebook) :
Excavations at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Aigion - 1967 : rescue excavations by the late Ephor of Antiquities, E. Mastrokostas /
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In this monograph the authors present the finds of four Mycenaean chamber tombs, from the rescue excavation of Ephor Mastrokostas at Aigion in 1967.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (colour) :
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9781784916190 (ebook) :
The Mycenaean cemetery at Clauss, near Patras : the people, their material remains and culture in context /
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This title presents the study of the finds from the Mycenaean cemetery of Clauss near Patras, carried out between 1988-1992 under the direction of Prof Thanassis Papadopoulos. During the excavation project, fifteen chamber tombs were located and researched in detail, to be added to those already known from the pre-war excavations by Nikolaos Kyparissis.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (600 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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9781784919207 (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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9781789699715 (PDF ebook) :
Large scale Rhodian sculpture of Hellenistic and Roman times /
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This volume presents the large-scale Rhodian sculpture of the Hellenistic and Roman period through the publication of 60 unpublished sculptures of life size or larger than life size, together with 45 sculptures already published.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784915773 (ebook) :
Mortuary differentiation and social structure in the Middle Helladic Argolid, 2000-1500 B.C /
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In this volume the archaeological, anthropological and radiocarbon data from selected sites of the Middle Helladic period are integrated to determine if there was variation between individual burials, groupings and cemeteries and to reconstruct change through time. This work was done for selective Argive sites, namely Lerna, Asine and Aspis.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
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9781789696264 (PDF ebook) :
Shaping regionality in socioeconomic systems : late Hellenistic-late Roman ceramic production, circulation, and consumption in Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC-AD 700) /
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This volume sheds some necessary light on local economies from the (late) Hellenistic to the Late Roman period. The concepts of regions and regionality are employed to explore the complexity of ancient economies and (ceramic) variability and change in Boeotia (Central Greece), largely on the basis of the survey data generated by the Boeotia Project for Thespiae, Askra, Hyettos, Tanagra and their surroundings. The analysis illustrates the existence of a range of (micro-)regions within Boeotia that are characterised by patterns and differences in ceramic production, variable intensities of interaction in larger networks, and consumer preferences and/or variability in aspects of consumption.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (x, 381 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272207 (PDF ebook) :
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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9781784911553 (PDF ebook) :
Ephyra-Epirus : the Mycenaean Acropolis : results of the excavations 1975-1986 and 2007-2008 /
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This volume presents the results of the 1975-1986 and 2007-2008 excavations on the prehistoric-Mycenaean acropolis of Ephyra, one of the most important Bronze Age sites of Epirus. Ephyra is a small coastal fortified site in the region of the lower Acheron valley, and it has produced impressive and, in some cases, unique Bronze Age remains.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations, maps (black and white, and colour) :
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9781789693720 (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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9781789696721 (ebook) :
Koukounaries I : Mycenaean pottery from selected contexts /
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The excavations on the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Greece, conducted under the direction of Demetrius U. Schilardi for the Archaeological Society at Athens from 1976 to 1992, revealed a 12th century B.C.E. Mycenaean building, an Iron Age settlement, and an Archaic sanctuary. This book presents the pottery from five areas inside the building: three large storerooms, the main east-west corridor, and a small shrine, as well as the pottery from a limited reoccupation after the building's fire destruction and abandonment.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (xxiv, 385 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789698756 (PDF ebook) :