| Description |
xxvi, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge world archaeology |
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Cambridge world archaeology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-476) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Approaches to Greek Archaeology: -- Introduction: classical archaeology and its objects -- Great traditions: classical scholarship and classical archaeology -- Modern archaeologies of Greece -- Chronology and terminology -- Part II. Archaic Greece: -- Early Iron Age Greece, 1000-700 BC -- Aegean, the Levant and the West: the orientalising phenomenon -- Gods, heroes and sacred places -- City, the state and the Polis -- Art, narrative and monumentality -- Regional archaeologies -- Part III. Classical Greece: -- Defining the classical: classical art -- Cities and sanctuaries of Classical Greece -- Archaeology of democracy: Classical Athens -- Beyond the Polis: the countryside of Classical Greece -- Epilogue: towards Hellenistic archaeology. |
| Summary |
"The Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods (1000-300 B.C.). 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, and a significant contribution to the integration of archaeological and art historical evidence."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece.
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Greece -- Antiquities.
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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| ISBN |
0521622050 |
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9780521622059 |
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0521627338 pb. |
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9780521627337 pb. |
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