Classical Greece
Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies

A reassessment of the archaeology of classical Greece, using modern archaeological approaches to provide a richer understanding of Greek society.

Ian Morris (Edited by)

9780521456784, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 June 1994

260 pages, 40 b/w illus. 13 maps 13 tables
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.4 cm, 0.47 kg

"The scholarship throughout is impressive; the bibliography alone is worth the price of the book." Rhys F. Townsend, Archaeological News

The archaeology of classical Greece developed in the shadow of Greek historical scholarship, and it has restricted itself too modestly to the study of individual artefacts. A wide variety of modern developments in archaeology have been neglected, and classical archaeology has become something of a backwater. The contributors to this book review the history of the field and aim to demonstrate that modern archaeological approaches can contribute to a richer understanding of Greek society. They also insist that this complex, literate and highly unusual system of states poses important questions for archaeologists of other regions.

1. Introduction Ian Morris
Part I. History: 2. Archaeologies of Greece Ian Morris
Part II. Artefacts and Objects: 3. Protoattic pottery: a contextual approach James Whitley
4. The riddle of the sphinx Herbert Hoffmann
5. Looking on - Greek style. Does the sculpted girl speak to women too? Robin Osborne
Part III. Aretefacts as Traded Objects: 6. Pots Positivism and long-distance trade David Gill
7. Athens, Etruria and Heuneburg: mutual misconceptions in the study of Greek-barbarian relations Karim Arafat, and Catherine Morgan
Part IV. Artefacts in the Landscape: 8. Intensive survey, agricultural practice and the classical landscape of Greece Susan Alcock, John Cherry, and Jack Davis
9. Breaking up the Hellenistic world: survey and society Susan Alcock
Part V. Responses: 10. An historian's response Michael Jameson
11. An archaeologist's response Anthony Snodgrass.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK]