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John G. Pedley is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Greek at the University of Michigan.
PREFACE 8
INTRODUCTION 10
The Recovery of Antiquity 13
The Eighteenth Century 17
The Nineteenth Century 19
The Twentieth Century 21
The Twenty-First Century 23
Literary Sources 26
The Development of Classical Archaeology 27
Culture and Society HARRIET BOYD HAWES: AMERICAN PIONEER 20
MAP The Greek World 12
Chapter 1 THE AEGEAN IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM C. 3000—2000 BC 30
Chronology 32
Crete 34
Architecture 34
Pottery and Stonework 35
The Cyclades 37
Architecture 37
Sculpture 37
Pottery and Stonework 40
Greece 40
Architecture 41
Pottery 43
MAP Minoan Crete and the Bronze Age Aegean 32
Chapter 2 THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE C. 2000—1550 BC 44
Crete 46
Architecture 46
Sculpture 48
Pottery 52
The Cyclades 52
Architecture 52
Pottery 54
Greece 54
Architecture 54
Pottery 55
Troy 56
Controversies and Issues ART AND THE FORGERY 50
Controversies and Issues HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN: SCHOLAR OR RASCAL? 56
Controversies and Issues PRIAM’S TREASURE: DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTIES 59
Chapter 3 THE LATE BRONZE AGE C. 1550—1100 BC 60
The Shipwreck off Uluburun 62
Crete 63
Architecture and Wall Painting 63
Sculpture and Pottery 70
Scripts 77
Minoan Religion 79
The LM III Period 81
The Cyclades 81
Keos 81
Melos: Phylakopi III 81
The Minoan Thalassocracy 81
Pottery 81
Thera 83
The Volcanic Eruption 85
Melos: Phylakopi IV 85
Greece 86
The Grave Circles at Mycenae 86
Architecture and Wall Painting 89
Sculpture and Pottery 95
Troy and the End of the Bronze Age in Greece 99
Culture and Society LINEAR B AND ITS DECIPHERMENT 76
Chapter 4 THE DARK AGE AND GEOMETRIC GREECE C. 1100—700 BC 102
Architecture 105
Sculpture 110
Pottery 112
Colonization 118
Culture and Society BURYING THE DEAD 115
MAP The Greek World to c. 400 BC 104
MAP South Italy and Sicily 119
Chapter 5 THE ORIENTALIZING PERIOD C. 700—600 BC 120
Pottery 121
Corinth 122
Athens 126
East Greece and the Islands 129
Architecture and Architectural Sculpture 131
Sculpture 139
Culture and Society DRINKING AND DINING: THE SYMPOSIUM 125
Culture and Society FOOD 135
Chapter 6 ARCHAIC GREECE C. 600—480 BC 146
Athens 147
Architecture and Architectural Sculpture 150
The Orders 150
Doric Temples 151
Ionic Temples 154
The Cyclades 156
Temple Functions 156
Sanctuaries 158
Doric and Ionic Treasuries 160
Sicily and South Italy 164
Athens 170
Sculpture 171
Kouroi 172
Korai 176
Reliefs 187
Pottery 189
Athens 192
Corinth 196
Laconia, East Greece, and the West 197
Athenian Red-figure 200
Culture and Society COINS AND COINAGE 149
Controversies and Issues THE GETTY KOUROS: IS IT FOR REAL? 181
Culture and Society CONNOISSEURSHIP 196
MAP Greece and the Aegean 148
Chapter 7 THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION C. 480—450 BC 206
Athens and the Western Greeks 209
The Women’s World 210
Architecture and Architectural Sculpture 213
Aegina 213
Olympia 214
The Olympic Games 221
Sicily and South Italy 223
Athens 227
Sculpture 229
Pottery and Wall Painting 242
Culture and Society SILVER MINES AND SILVER
COINS AT ATHENS 208
Culture and Society HOMOSEXUALITY 243
Chapter 8 THE HIGH CLASSICAL PERIOD C. 450—400 BC 248
The Peloponnesian War 250
Architecture and Architectural Sculpture 251
Athens 251
Sicily and South Italy 274
Sculpture 276
Pottery and Wall Painting 281
Controversies and Issues LORD ELGIN AND THE PARTHENON MARBLES 263
MAP Attica 256
Chapter 9 THE FOURTH CENTURY C. 400—300 BC 288
Architecture and Architectural Sculpture 293
Bassae 293
Epidauros 294
Athens 297
Olynthos 299
Priene 300
Halikarnassos 302
Sculpture 305
Alexander the Great 312
Pottery 318
Wall Painting and Mosaics 322
Macedon 325
Vergina 325
Pella 334
Lefkadia 336
Controversies and Issues THE THEATER AT ATHENS: WERE WOMEN IN THE AUDIENCE? 326
Controversies and Issues VERGINA: THE TOMB OF PHILIP (BUT WHICH PHILIP?) 333
MAP The Greek World. c. 400—30 BC 290
Chapter 10 THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD C. 323—31 BC 338
Rome and Greece 340
Architecture 341
Pergamon 341
Kos 345
Magnesia and Didyma 345
Athens 348
Miletus 351
Syracuse 354
Sculpture 354
Wall Painting and Mosaics 377
Pottery 382
Culture and Society THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM 343
Culture and Society SALVAGE ARCHAEOLOGY 352
Conclusion 386
Chronology 388
Glossary 389
Select Bibliography 392
Photographic Credits 394
Index 395
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