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Book Attic Fine Pottery of the Archaic to Hellenistic Periods in Phanagoria

Download or read book Attic Fine Pottery of the Archaic to Hellenistic Periods in Phanagoria written by Catherine A. Morgan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication of Attic fine pottery imported to the Greek colony of Phanagoria in the Taman Peninsula, southern Russia, explores the social function of imports in a colonial society, and the changing nature of Black Sea trade.

Book Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Download or read book Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World written by J. A. Baird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Book Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean

Download or read book Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean written by Irad Malkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Bringing together some of the most active and prominent researchers in ancient history, this book moves beyond political institutions, ethnic, and geographical boundaries in order to observe the ancient Mediterranean through a perspective of network interaction. It employs a wide range of approaches, and to examine relationships and interactions among various social entities in the Mediterranean. Chronologically, the book extends from the early Iron Age to the late Antique world, covering the Mediterranean between Antioch in the east to Massalia (Marseilles) in the west. This book was published as two special issues in Mediterranean Historical Review.

Book Athenian Potters and Painters III

Download or read book Athenian Potters and Painters III written by John Oakley and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops Ð Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms Ð plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed paintersÕ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of a wide range of papers Ð chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the special vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. Athenian Potters and Painters III, the proceedings of an international conference held at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2012, will, like the previous two volumes, become a standard reference work in the study of Greek pottery.

Book Sinope  The Results of Fifteen Years of Research  Proceedings of the International Symposium  7 9 May 2009

Download or read book Sinope The Results of Fifteen Years of Research Proceedings of the International Symposium 7 9 May 2009 written by Dominique Kassab Tezgör and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les premières fouilles archéologiques furent entreprises à Sinope entre 1951 et 1953. Des travaux ponctuels ont ensuite été menés, mais ce n'est qu'au début des années 90 que Sinope a connu un regain d'intérêt et que l'activité archéologique s'est développée à l'échelle internationale, avec tout d'abord les fouilles des ateliers amphoriques, puis divers programmes terrestres et sous-marins. Les Actes du Symposium international rassemblent les résultats de ces travaux, ainsi que les recherches consacrées à l'histoire de cette ville, depuis sa fondation jusqu'à la période seldjoukide, à ses productions artisanales, à son commerce et à ses relations avec le reste de la mer Noire.

Book The Invention of Greek Ethnography

Download or read book The Invention of Greek Ethnography written by Joseph E. Skinner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek ethnography is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with the wider sense of Greek identity that emerged during the Greeks' "encounter with the barbarian"--Achaemenid Persia--during the late sixth to early fifth centuries BC. The dramatic nature of this meeting, it was thought, caused previous imaginings to crystallise into the diametric opposition between "Hellene" and "barbarian" that would ultimately give rise to ethnographic prose. The Invention of Greek Ethnography challenges the legitimacy of this conventional narrative. Drawing on recent advances in ethnographic and cultural studies and in the material culture-based analyses of the Ancient Mediterranean, Joseph Skinner argues that ethnographic discourse was already ubiquitous throughout the archaic Greek world, not only in the form of texts but also in a wide range of iconographic and archaeological materials. As such, it can be differentiated both on the margins of the Greek world, like in Olbia and Calabria and in its imagined centers, such as Delphi and Olympia. The reconstruction of this "ethnography before ethnography" demonstrates that discourses of identity and difference played a vital role in defining what it meant to be Greek in the first place long before the fifth century BC. The development of ethnographic writing and historiography are shown to be rooted in this wider process of "positioning" that was continually unfurling across time, as groups and individuals scattered the length and breadth of the Mediterranean world sought to locate themselves in relation to the narratives of the past. This shift in perspective provided by The Invention of Greek Ethnography has significant implications for current understanding of the means by which a sense of Greek identity came into being, the manner in which early discourses of identity and difference should be conceptualized, and the way in which so-called "Great Historiography," or narrative history, should ultimately be interpreted.

Book Greco Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia

Download or read book Greco Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia written by Caspar Meyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art history, and textual sources to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, Meyer offers unique introductions to the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to Asia and classical Greece, modern museum and visual culture studies, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.

Book Teos and Abdera

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mustafa Adak
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 019284542X
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Teos and Abdera written by Mustafa Adak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and varied epigraphic record of the city of Teos in northern Ionia has been dramatically enriched by recent excavations at the site, conducted since 2010 under the aegis of the University of Ankara. Over the past decade, the number of known inscriptions from Teos has increased from c. 300 to c. 500, and every season's campaign brings significant new finds. The most remarkable document discovered in recent years is a long honorific decree of Abdera for the dēmos of Teos, dating to the mid-160s BC (Chapter 1, Document 1). The new inscription invites a reassessment of the uniquely close relationship between Teos and her daughter-city Abdera over a period of almost four centuries, from the original Teian settlement at Abdera in the 540s BC to the Roman sack of Abdera in 170 BC and its aftermath. We hope that readers will share our excitement in retracing the long shared history of Teos and Abdera, in times of both peace and war

Book The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea and the Importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco Roman World  7th century BC 5th century AD   20 Years On  1997 2017

Download or read book The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea and the Importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco Roman World 7th century BC 5th century AD 20 Years On 1997 2017 written by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Constanţa, 2017) is dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John Boardman, President of the Congress since its inception. The central theme returns to that considered 20 years earlier: the importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco-Roman World.

Book Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea

Download or read book Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea written by David Braund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.

Book Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos

Download or read book Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos written by Caitlín Barrett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Hellenistic popular religion through an interdisciplinary study of figurines of Egyptian deities from Delos. The results offer a new perspective on Hellenistic reinterpretations of Egyptian religion, as well as the relationship between “popular” and “official” cults.

Book Meetings of Cultures in the Black Sea Region

Download or read book Meetings of Cultures in the Black Sea Region written by Jane Hjarl Petersen Pia Guldager Bilde and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a theme, Meetings of Cultures in the Black Sea Region: Between Conflict and Coexistence arouses strong feelings. From the remotest Antiquity, the indigenous and nomadic non-Greek populations of the Pontic region were persistently viewed as one of the major Others, first of all by Mediterranean Greeks. And because the region geographically was located as a bridge between Europe and Asia it was, and still is, also part of a Europe/Asia discourse of dichotomy. As far back in time as Antiquity Western self-understanding and identity formation has been shaped not least through its colonial experiences. Until recently, such colonial experience has led to a very static picture in our analysis of colonial encounters. However, as a result of post-colonialism, post-modernism and now globalization our conception of colonization has undergone a rapid and far-reaching conceptual change. Gone are the days when the Black Sea region was seen as a sea of barbarian wilds enlightened by small flicks of Greek civilization along the coast. Settling the Black Sea region was a challenge for the Greeks. Compared with the Mediterranean, this happened relatively late, and the attempt of settling the land was not always equally successful. In fact, frequently the power balance was in favour of the indigenous population. Nevertheless, the cultivation of the land and the establishment of exchange systems must have been beneficial for all participants in the exchange network. In this volume, the acts of an international, interdisciplinary conference held at Sandbjerg Manor House, Denmark in January 2006 are published. 19 contributions by scholars from Denmark, France, Georgia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and Ukraine give a profound discussion of various topics such as the physical arena of the colonial encounters as spaces of identity; the layout of land and protection of cities; the dynamics of the cultural exchange; the perception of how it was to be Greek in the Pontic realm, and finally the reciprocal strategies exerted by the Greeks and Scythians in Olbia as described in Herodotos' Fourth Book of his Histories. Through the many-sided contributions it is also revealed, how self and other is two sides of the same coin - yesterday, today and, tomorrow.

Book Drawing the Greek Vase

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caspar Meyer
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-05-12
  • ISBN : 0192668757
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Drawing the Greek Vase written by Caspar Meyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity. Case studies of the seventeenth to the twentieth century foreground ways that artists have depicted Greek vases in a range of styles and contexts within and beyond academia. Questions addressed include: how do these images translate three-dimensional ancient utilitarian objects with iconography central to the tradition of Western painting and decorative arts into two-dimensional graphic images carrying aesthetic and epistemic value? How does the embodied practice of drawing enable people to engage with Greek vases differently from museum viewers, and what insights does it offer on ancient producers and users? And how did the invention of photography impact the tradition of drawing Greek vases? The volume addresses art historians of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, archaeologists and classical reception scholars.

Book Cultural Interactions and Social Strategies on the Pontic Shores

Download or read book Cultural Interactions and Social Strategies on the Pontic Shores written by Jane Hjarl Petersen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Antiquity, the Black Sea region was a meeting point for several different population groups with diverse cultural backgrounds. The present monograph takes its point of departure in burial data from four coastal localities in the northern region of the Black Sea. The mortuary practices are decoded and interpreted within a framework mainly based on concepts of cultural interaction rather than cultural polarisation. Thus, the dogma of 'The Greeks and the Others' is challenged, and alternative perceptions of interactions between the people in the Black Sea region form the basis of the study. The burials are primarily analysed with emphasis on social strategies and cultural diversity. Furthermore, the Black Sea region is set into a comparative perspective through an outlook on burial customs and mortuary practices in the colonial milieus of contemporary Southern Italy.

Book Hellenic Colonization in Euxeinos Pontos

Download or read book Hellenic Colonization in Euxeinos Pontos written by Elias K. Petropoulos and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Permanent settlements were founded by Greek marine traders as early as the mid 7th century in and around the Black Sea region. This revised thesis seeks to describe and examine the nature of these permanent emporia from this period until 590/580BC, as well as well as determine the conditions under which they appeared and how they compared to other settlements traditionally labelled as colonies.

Book Ancient West   East

    Book Details:
  • Author : G.R. Tsetskhladze
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2021-11-08
  • ISBN : 9004496440
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Ancient West East written by G.R. Tsetskhladze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: