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The Archaeology of Ancient Greece James Whitley (Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology , British School at Athens)

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece By James Whitley (Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology , British School at Athens)

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece by James Whitley (Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology , British School at Athens)


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Summary

A synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods. The book shows how material evidence can be used to address historical questions for which literary evidence is often insufficient, and situates Greek art within the broader field of Greek material culture.

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece Summary

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece by James Whitley (Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology , British School at Athens)

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides a synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods (1000-300 BC). The rich and diverse material culture of ancient Greece has always provoked admiration and even wonder, but it is seldom analysed as a key to our understanding of Greek civilisation. Dr Whitley shows how the material evidence can be used to address central historical questions for which literary evidence is often insufficient. He also situates Greek art within the broader field of Greek material culture, providing an historically more accurate perspective on both. This is a significant contribution to the integration of archaeological and art historical evidence.

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece Reviews

'... a magisterial survey of the current state of Greek archaeology ...'. The Anglo-Hellenic Review
'... deserves the attention of us all ... an excellent account of what the discipline is, where it has been, and where it is now'. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About James Whitley (Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology , British School at Athens)

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

Table of Contents

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.

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GOR005340661
9780521627337
0521627338
The Archaeology of Ancient Greece by James Whitley (Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology , British School at Athens)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
20011004
512
Winner of Runciman Award 2002
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