The Archaeology of Greece and Rome: Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass

Media type: E-Book

Title: The Archaeology of Greece and Rome : Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass

Contributor: Bintliff, John [Author]; Bintliff, John [Contributor]; Cartledge, Paul [Contributor]; Dickinson, Oliver [Contributor]; Elsner, Jaś [Contributor]; Fachard, Sylvian [Contributor]; González, José M [Contributor]; Grazia Palmieri, Maria [Contributor]; Hurst, Henry [Contributor]; Hölscher, Tonio [Contributor]; Künzl, Ernst [Contributor]; Meissner, Torsten [Contributor]; Nagy, Gregory [Contributor]; Polignac, François de [Contributor]; Rutter, Keith [Author]; Rutter, Keith [Contributor]; Schnapp, Alain [Contributor]; Schnapp-Gourbeillon, Annie [Contributor]; Schneider, Rolf Michael [Contributor]; Spivey, Nigel [Contributor]; Squire, Michael [Contributor]; Stissi, Vladimir [Contributor]; d'Agostino, Bruno [Contributor]

Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (472 p); 30 B/W illustrations 130 colour illustrations 1 B/W tables

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474417105

ISBN: 9781474417105

Identifier:

Keywords: Archaeology Greece ; Archaeology Rome ; HISTORY / Ancient / General

Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]

Origination:

Footnote: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Section I Prehistory -- 1 'The Coming of the Greeks' and All That -- 2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in -εύς -- 3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early Polis: A Reappraisal -- Section II Around Homer -- 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus' 'Scamander' (Imagines I.1) -- 5 Homer's Audience: What Did They See? -- 6 Homer and the Sculptors -- Section III The Archaic and Classical Greek World -- 7 Potters, Hippeis and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC -- 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note -- 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach -- 10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic Dichterweihe? -- 11 'Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?' Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch -- 12 Coins in a 'Home Away from Home': The Case of Sicily -- Section IV The Greeks and their Neighbours -- 13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine) -- 14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great -- Section V The Roman and Much Wider World -- 15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View -- 16 The Poetics of Ruins in ancient Greece and Rome -- 17 Context Matters: Pliny's Phryges and the Basilica Paulli in Rome -- Section VI The Scholar in the University and in the Field -- 18 Anthony in Edinburgh -- 19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation -- 20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece -- Index

Contributions to Greek and Roman archaeology and history, inspired by the work of Anthony SnodgrassOver his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Edinburgh University (1961-1976), Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge (1976-2001) and currently Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass has influenced and been associated with a long series of eminent classical archaeologists, historians and linguists.In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey. Not only do they celebrate his achievements but they also represent new avenues of research which will have a broad appeal

Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB

Search in field:

Recently searched for: