Author : Rodney Stuart Young
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1939
Category : History
ISBN :
The entire contents of a small Geometric period (900-700 B.C.) cemetery of twenty graves, found just south of the Tholos in the Athenian Agora, are catalogued in this book. Three additional graves, a well, and selection of isolated finds provide the author with a mass of Geometric and proto-Attic pottery from which to develop important typological observations about Attic ceramics at this formative period.
Author : Rodney Stuart Young
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Agora (Athens, Greece)
ISBN :
Author : Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004097599
Author : Rodney S. Young
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Agora (Athens, Greece)
ISBN :
Author : Helen King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134599722
How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists. Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues surrounding health in the Greco-Roman world from prehistory to Christian late antiquity. Sources range from palaeodemography to patristic and from archaeology to architecture and using these, this book considers what health meant, how it was thought to be achieved, and addresses how the ancient world can be perceived as an ideal in subsequent periods of history.
Author : Floris van den Eijnde
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004356738
Feasting and commensality formed the backbone of social life in the polis, the most characteristic and enduring form of political organization in the ancient Greek world. Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions reveals how feasts defined the religious and political institutions of the Greek citizen-state. Taking the reader from the Early Iron Age to the Imperial Period, this volume launches an essential inquiry into Greek power relations. Focusing on the myriad of patronage roles at the feast and making use of a wide variety of methodologies and primary sources, including archaeology, epigraphy and literature, Feasting and Polis Institutions argues that in ancient Greece political interaction could never be complete until it was consummated in a festive context.
Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1994-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521456784
A reassessment of the archaeology of classical Greece, using modern archaeological approaches to provide a richer understanding of Greek society.
Author : P. A. L. Greenhalgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 1973-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521200563
First published in 1973, this is a study of the literary and archaeological developments in the warfare of early Greece. Dr Greenhalgh considers in particular the military history of the chariot and mounted horse, both as they were represented in poetry and art and as they were used in reality from about 1100 to 500BC. He finds the picture superficially presented by the sources incoherent and often incredible, and attempts a reconstruction which does justice to both tactical and technical possibilities and to the social and economic facts of life in the period. He shoes how the Homeric poems, for example, can be systematically misleading - in part misconceiving the character of the Mycenaean age, and in part conflating with this misconception the conditions of their own time. This illustrated study will be of value to archaeologists, historians of warfare and Homeric specialists; its wider implications will interest social and political historians.
Author : Curtis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9004475036
Employing a wide variety of sources, this book discusses innovations in food processing and preservation from the Palaeolithic period through the late Roman Empire. All through the ages, there has been the need to acquire and maintain a consistent food supply leading to the invention of tools and new technologies to process certain plant and animal foods into different and more usable forms. This handbook presents the results of the most recent investigations, identifies controversies, and points to areas needing further work. It is the first book to focus specifically on ancient food technology, and to discuss the integral role it played in the political, economic, and social fabric of ancient society. Fully documented and lavishly illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings, it will appeal to students and scholars of both the arts and the sciences.
Author : Herbert J Izzo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 1972-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487590474
The Italian spoken in most of Tuscany is characterized by a number of peculiar pronunciations which for over half a century Romance scholars have explained by a theory of linguistic substratum influence. This theory postulates that present-day Tuscan pronunciation is a survival of the 'foreign accent' with which the ancient Etruscans must have spoken Latin when Rome first began to extend its power and language over the rest of Italy. Professor Izzo has undertaken a new and thorough investigation of modern Tuscan pronunciation, disproving this hypothesis and providing a definitive conclusion to the debate. He delineates clearly the errors in reasoning of those who trace the Tuscan pronunciation to an Etruscan influence, and presents his conclusions objectively. This study will interest Romance linguists, especially historians of the Italian language; but it will also interest historical linguists in general, for by disproving one of the most plausible and best-documented cases of alleged substratum influence, it casts doubt on many other cases where such influence has been claimed with little evidence.
