James Whitley

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Synthesis of current research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 874g
• ISBN-13: 9780521627337
• ISBN-10: 0521627338
• Artikelnr.: 22438977

Autorenporträt

James Whitley is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, Cardiff University. He is the author of Style in Society in Dark Age Greece (1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Approaches to Greek Archaeology: 1. Introduction: classical archaeology and its objects
2. Great traditions: classical scholarship and classical archaeology
3. Modern archaeologies of Greece
4. Chronology and terminology
Part II. Archaic Greece: 5. Archaic Greece, 1000-700 BC
6. The Aegean, the Levant and the West: the orientalising phenomenon
7. Gods, heroes and sacred places
8. The city, the state and the Polis
9. Art, narrative and monumentality
10. Regional archaeologies
Part III. Classical Greece: 11. Defining the classical: classical art
12. Cities and sanctuaries of Classical Greece
13. The archaeology of democracy: Classical Athens
14. Beyond the Polis: the countryside of Classical Greece
15. Epilogue: towards Hellenistic archaeology.