The Archaeology of Ancient Greece

by James Whitley

• ISBN13: 9780521627337
• ISBN10: 0521627338
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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. Its rich and diverse material has always provoked admiration and even wonder, but it is seldom analyzed as a key to our understanding of Greek civilization. Dr. Whitley shows how the material evidence can be used to address central historical questions for which literary evidence is often insufficient, and he also situates Greek art within the broader field of Greek material culture.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	xix
Preface and acknowledgements	xxi
PART I APPROACHES TO GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY
Introduction: Classical Archaeology and its objects	3	(14)
Great traditions: Classical scholarship and Classical Archaeology	17	(25)
Modern archaeologies of Greece	42	(18)
Chronology and terminology	60	(17)
PART II: ARCHAIC GREECE, 1000-479 BC
Early Iron Age Greece, 1000-700 BC	77	(25)
The Aegean, the Levant and the West: the Orientalising phenomenon	102	(32)
Gods, heroes and sacred places	134	(31)
The city, the state and the polis	165	(30)
Art, narrative and monumentality	195	(36)
Regional archaeologies	231	(38)
PART III: CLASSICAL GREECE
Defining the Classical: Classical art	269	(25)
Cities and sanctuaries of Classical Greece	294	(35)
The archaeology of democracy: Classical Athens	329	(47)
Beyond the polis: the countryside of Classical Greece	376	(24)
Epilogue: towards Hellenistic archaeology	400	(20)
Further reading for each chapter	420	(9)
Bibliography	429	(48)
Index	477