Christopher Witmore

Old Lands

A Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese

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Produktbeschreibung

Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. It explores long-term changes in society and technology across time in this region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1106g
• ISBN-13: 9780815363446
• ISBN-10: 0815363443
• Artikelnr.: 59355484

Autorenporträt

Christopher Witmore is professor of archaeology and classics at Texas Tech University. He is co-author of Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012, with B. Olsen, M. Shanks, and T. Webmoor). Routledge published his co-edited Archaeology in the Making in 2013 (paperback 2017, with W. Rathje and M. Shanks). He is also co-editor of the Routledge series Archaeological Orientations (with G. Lucas).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The measure of the Morea?
1. Lines in stone: Roads, canals, walls, faults, and marine terraces
2. Ancient Corinth: Descent into memory, ascent into oblivion
3. Acrocorinth: From gate to summit
4. Along the A7 (Moréas), by car
5. Kleonai to Nemea
6. Nemea: A transect
7. An erstwhile aqueduct: Lucretian flow
8. To Mykenes station, by train
9. About Mycenae, history and archaeology
10. A path to the Heraion
11. Through groves of citrus to Argos
12. Argos, a democratic polis and Plutarch's Pyrrhus, a synkrisis (comparison)
13. Modern spectacle through an ancient theatre
14. Argos to Anapli on the hoof, with a stop at Tiryns
15. A stroll through Nafplion
16. The road to Epidaurus: Frazer and Pausanias
17. Paleolithic to Bronze Age amid Venetian: A museum
18. To Asine: Legal objects
19. To Vivari, by boat
20. Into the Bedheni Valley
21. Through the Southern Argolid
22. Ermioni/Hermion/Kastri: A topology
23. Looking southwest, to what has become of an ancient oikos
24. Across the Adheres, iterations
25. Troizen, verdant and in ruin
26. To Methana
27. Into the Saronic Gulf
Epilogue: On chorography