Ancient Greece : The Dawn of the Western World

by Durando, Furio

• ISBN13: 9781586637583
• ISBN10: 1586637584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc

Summary

Ancient Greece: The Dawn of the Western World sets out to relate the story of ancient Greece, its civilization, culture, and art, in a way no publication has ever done before. The book takes readers on a journey of discovery, using more than 1000 photographs of outstanding quality, many of them never before published. The book opens with a brief but complete history of Hellas, from its origins through the Roman conquest, and then moves on to an exploration of how the ancient Greeks lived - the homes they dwelled in, the jewelry they wore, the religions they practiced, the dramas they performed, the wars they fought, the games they played.

Author Biography

Furio Durando was born in Milan in 1960. An archaeologist by profession and university teacher, he studied classics and archaeology at the University of Milan before obtaining a Master of Archaeology from the University of Bologna. He has taken part in excavations and topographical surveys in various parts of Italy. In particular he has conducted experimental projects involving metrological and archaeometric research on Archaic Greek and Phoenician amphorae in the central western Mediterranean. He has also studied figured Attic pottery found in Pithekoussai (Ischia). His many other activities have included cataloguing literary and epigraphic sources, "reconstructing" Roman road and land division systems in and around the city of Cremona, and curating La pianura bolognese nel Villanoviano (The Bologna plain in the Early Iron Age), an exhibition held in Bologna in 1994. Furio Durando has published numerous articles on his research findings. He is currently working on a monograph about Cremona in Roman times and a catalogue of the figured Attic pottery unearthed in Ischia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 14
Greek History from Minos to Augustus	p. 18
Civilization and Culture in Ancient Greece	p. 66
Greek Art through the Centuries	p. 100
Archaeological Itineraries in Greece and Asia Minor	p. 158
Archaeological Itineraries in Magna Graecia	p. 248
Glossary	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 288
Illustration Credits	p. 289
Index	p. 289
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.