The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy

An overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present.

Charles Brian Rose (Author)

9780521762076, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 December 2013

442 pages, 158 b/w illus. 29 colour illus.
26.2 x 18.3 x 2 cm, 1.1 kg

'This is the book that everyone who has a strong interest in the history of ancient Troy or Ilion has been waiting for.' Oliver Dickinson, Anglo-Hellenic Review

The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides an overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present. Charles Brian Rose traces the social and economic development of the city and related sites in the Troad, as well as the development of its civic and religious centers from the Bronze Age through the early Christian period, with a focus on the settlements of Greek and Roman date. Along the way, he reconsiders the circumstances of the Trojan War and chronicles Troy's gradual development into a Homeric tourist destination and the adoption of Trojan ancestry by most nation-states in medieval Europe.

1. Troy in the Bronze Age
2. Troy during the Archaic Period
3. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley: the Polyxena sarcophagus
4. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley II: the child's sarcophagus
5. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley III: the Dedetepe tumulus
6. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley IV: the Çan sarcophagus
7. Ilion, Athens, and Sigeion during the 5th and 4th centuries BC
8. Ilion in the early Hellenistic period
9. The West Sanctuary during the Hellenistic period
10. Late Hellenistic and early imperial Ilion
11. From the Flavians to the Byzantines
12. The concept of Troy after antiquity.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK], Archaeology [HD], Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]