The Archaeology of Athens

by John M. Camp

• ISBN13: 9780300101515
• ISBN10: 0300101511
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-02-09
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Author Biography

John M. Camp is director of the Agora excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and professor of classics at Randolph-Macon College.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I THE MONUMENTS OF ATHENS
1 INTRODUCTION THE PHYSICAL SETTING	3	(8)
2 THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD	11	(10)
Paleolithic and Neolithic	11	(1)
Early Bronze Age	12	(1)
Middle Bronze Age	13	(1)
Late Bronze Age	14	(7)
3 EARLY AND ARCHAIC ATHENS	21	(38)
The Dark Ages	21	(1)
The Eighth and Seventh Centuries	22	(4)
The Sixth Century	26	(1)
Solon	26	(2)
Peisistratos	28	(11)
The Rise of Democracy	39	(8)
The Persian Wars	47	(12)
4 CLASSICAL ATHENS	59	(102)
Kimon	63	(9)
Perikles	72	(2)
The Parthenon	74	(8)
The Propylaia	82	(8)
The Temple of Athena Nike	90	(3)
The Erechtheion	93	(7)
The Lower City	100	(6)
Attica	106	(11)
The Peloponnesian War	117	(20)
The Fourth Century	137	(24)
5 HELLENISTIC ATHENS	161	(22)
6 ROMAN ATHENS	183	(40)
7 LATE ROMAN ATHENS	223	(24)
Epilogue	239	(8)
PART II SITE SUMMARIES
ATHENS	247	(24)
Acropolis	248	(6)
Acropolis Slopes	254	(3)
Agora	257	(4)
Kerameikos	261	(3)
Mouseion Hill, Pnyx, Areopagos	264	(2)
Olympieion, Southeast Athens	266	(5)
ATTICA	271	(48)
Acharnai	274	(3)
Brauron	277	(4)
East Coast: Steireia, Prasiai (Porto Raphti, Koroni, Perati)	281	(2)
Eleusis	283	(6)
Ikaria	289	(2)
Marathon	291	(3)
Peiraieus	294	(5)
Phyle	299	(2)
Rhamnous	301	(4)
Sounion	305	(6)
Thorikos	311	(4)
West Coast: Euonymon, Aixone, Cape Zoster, Cave of Pan (Trachones, Glyphada, Vouliagmeni, Vari)	315	(4)
BORDER AREAS	319	(9)
Eleutherai	319	(3)
Oropos (Amphiareion)	322	(2)
Salamis	324	(4)
Abbreviations	328	(1)
Illustration Credits	329	(1)
Index	330