R. R. R. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263235
- eISBN:
- 9780191734328
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263235.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter explores the visual aspect, a territory shared with archaeology and art history. The Greek and Roman world poured an astonishing amount of its surplus into expensive monuments and ...
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This chapter explores the visual aspect, a territory shared with archaeology and art history. The Greek and Roman world poured an astonishing amount of its surplus into expensive monuments and elaborate public images, and their study is naturally an important part of classical archaeology. Unlike many other archaeologies, this subject studies a world extremely well documented by abundant and diverse literary and textual evidence, and it is thus part of the wider classics project. The discussion explores some of the great gains made by recent work in this area and some of the remaining deficiencies. Gains have resulted from application of historically based questions, while deficiencies arise from the still largely untheorised nature of this subject's research and discourse.Less
This chapter explores the visual aspect, a territory shared with archaeology and art history. The Greek and Roman world poured an astonishing amount of its surplus into expensive monuments and elaborate public images, and their study is naturally an important part of classical archaeology. Unlike many other archaeologies, this subject studies a world extremely well documented by abundant and diverse literary and textual evidence, and it is thus part of the wider classics project. The discussion explores some of the great gains made by recent work in this area and some of the remaining deficiencies. Gains have resulted from application of historically based questions, while deficiencies arise from the still largely untheorised nature of this subject's research and discourse.
Giovanna Ceserani
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744275
- eISBN:
- 9780199932139
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744275.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, American History: pre-Columbian BCE to 500CE
This book tells the story of the modern engagement with the area of South Italy where ancient Greeks established settlements starting in the 8th century BCE–a region known since antiquity as Magna ...
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This book tells the story of the modern engagement with the area of South Italy where ancient Greeks established settlements starting in the 8th century BCE–a region known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This ‘Great Greece’, at once Greek and Italian, and continuously perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden age, has long been relegated to the margins of classical studies. The present analysis recovers its significance within the history of classical archaeology. It was in South Italy that the Renaissance first encountered an ancient Greek landscape, and in the ‘Hellenic turn’ of eighteenth-century Europe the temples of Paestum and the painted vases excavated in South Italy played major roles, but since then, Magna Graecia–lying outside the national boundaries of modern Greece, and sharing in the complicated regional dynamic of the Italian Mezzogiorno in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-has fitted awkwardly into the commonly accepted paradigms of Hellenism. Drawing on antiquarian and archaeological writings, travelogues and modern historiography, and recent rewritings of the history and imagining of South Italy, this study identifies and elaborates the crucial place of Magna Graecia within the creation of modern archaeology. It is an Italian story with European resonance, which offers a unique perspective on the Humanist investment in the ancient past, while it transforms our understanding of the transition from antiquarianism to archaeology; of the relationship between nation-making and institution-building in the study of the ancient past; and of the reconstruction of classical Greece in the modern world.Less
This book tells the story of the modern engagement with the area of South Italy where ancient Greeks established settlements starting in the 8th century BCE–a region known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This ‘Great Greece’, at once Greek and Italian, and continuously perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden age, has long been relegated to the margins of classical studies. The present analysis recovers its significance within the history of classical archaeology. It was in South Italy that the Renaissance first encountered an ancient Greek landscape, and in the ‘Hellenic turn’ of eighteenth-century Europe the temples of Paestum and the painted vases excavated in South Italy played major roles, but since then, Magna Graecia–lying outside the national boundaries of modern Greece, and sharing in the complicated regional dynamic of the Italian Mezzogiorno in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-has fitted awkwardly into the commonly accepted paradigms of Hellenism. Drawing on antiquarian and archaeological writings, travelogues and modern historiography, and recent rewritings of the history and imagining of South Italy, this study identifies and elaborates the crucial place of Magna Graecia within the creation of modern archaeology. It is an Italian story with European resonance, which offers a unique perspective on the Humanist investment in the ancient past, while it transforms our understanding of the transition from antiquarianism to archaeology; of the relationship between nation-making and institution-building in the study of the ancient past; and of the reconstruction of classical Greece in the modern world.
John Boardman
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197262788
- eISBN:
- 9780191754210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262788.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Robert Cook was Laurence Reader then Professor in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University. His Greek Painted Pottery, first published in 1960, was a standard student text and his Greek Art ...
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Robert Cook was Laurence Reader then Professor in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University. His Greek Painted Pottery, first published in 1960, was a standard student text and his Greek Art (1972) was aimed at a general readership. Cook wrote widely on Ancient Greek archaeology and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1974. Obituary by John Boardman FBA.Less
Robert Cook was Laurence Reader then Professor in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University. His Greek Painted Pottery, first published in 1960, was a standard student text and his Greek Art (1972) was aimed at a general readership. Cook wrote widely on Ancient Greek archaeology and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1974. Obituary by John Boardman FBA.
Alan Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264751
- eISBN:
- 9780191734229
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264751.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Nicolas Coldstream was a tall but not lofty person. His manner indeed was that of a quiet and thoughtful member of the old-school type, and this certainly was occasionally misinterpreted. Coldstream ...
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Nicolas Coldstream was a tall but not lofty person. His manner indeed was that of a quiet and thoughtful member of the old-school type, and this certainly was occasionally misinterpreted. Coldstream tended to couch his disagreements in terms well known from the Yes Minister repertoire: ‘I am not quite sure that I can follow you completely on that’. His deliberate and seemingly at times slow responses were however always to the point, and couched in readily understandable terms; his students always valued the meticulous detail that he could bring to their work, as he did in his publications. Academically Coldstream concentrated on the essentials of gathering physical evidence and interpreting them in historical terms, be they art-historical or broadly political. He regarded both his basic books, Greek Geometric Pottery: a Survey of Ten Local Styles and their Chronology and Geometric Greece as historical contributions; certainly nobody working in the field can afford to ignore either.Less
Nicolas Coldstream was a tall but not lofty person. His manner indeed was that of a quiet and thoughtful member of the old-school type, and this certainly was occasionally misinterpreted. Coldstream tended to couch his disagreements in terms well known from the Yes Minister repertoire: ‘I am not quite sure that I can follow you completely on that’. His deliberate and seemingly at times slow responses were however always to the point, and couched in readily understandable terms; his students always valued the meticulous detail that he could bring to their work, as he did in his publications. Academically Coldstream concentrated on the essentials of gathering physical evidence and interpreting them in historical terms, be they art-historical or broadly political. He regarded both his basic books, Greek Geometric Pottery: a Survey of Ten Local Styles and their Chronology and Geometric Greece as historical contributions; certainly nobody working in the field can afford to ignore either.
Stephen L. Dyson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110975
- eISBN:
- 9780300134971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110975.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter discusses how the defeat of Napoleon III by the Prussians at the Battle of the Sedan in 1870 ended the reign of one of the most archaeologically enthusiastic rulers in European history. ...
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This chapter discusses how the defeat of Napoleon III by the Prussians at the Battle of the Sedan in 1870 ended the reign of one of the most archaeologically enthusiastic rulers in European history. It also set off a succession of events that led to the creation of two new nations, the kingdom of Italy and the German Reich, and produced an intellectual and cultural crisis in France. Throughout the changing Western world, the ruling elites were united by a common classical education and the belief that much was to be learned from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. The chapter finds that each of these developments played a significant role in shaping the course of classical archaeology down to World War I.Less
This chapter discusses how the defeat of Napoleon III by the Prussians at the Battle of the Sedan in 1870 ended the reign of one of the most archaeologically enthusiastic rulers in European history. It also set off a succession of events that led to the creation of two new nations, the kingdom of Italy and the German Reich, and produced an intellectual and cultural crisis in France. Throughout the changing Western world, the ruling elites were united by a common classical education and the belief that much was to be learned from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. The chapter finds that each of these developments played a significant role in shaping the course of classical archaeology down to World War I.
Anthony Snodgrass
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623334
- eISBN:
- 9780748653577
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623334.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book contains twenty-five chapters, some of them ...
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Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book contains twenty-five chapters, some of them previously published only in rather inaccessible places, which have contributed to this change. The chapters cover four decades of work on pre-classical and classical Greece and some adjacent fields of scholarship, beginning in the 1960s when classical archaeology was not widely seen as a free-standing subject. They chart the progress of a movement for the intellectual independence of Greek archaeology and art, from history and textual studies and for recognition among other branches of archaeology. The key theme of the chapters is the importance of the Iron Age as the formative period in the making of classical Greece and the text varies this with comment on literature, history, anthropology, Aegean and European prehistory and Roman provincial archaeology. This collection represents innovative work in classical archaeology; challenges accepted boundaries and inhibitions; and is wide in scope, covering history, prehistory, art, literary interpretation, and field archaeology.Less
Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book contains twenty-five chapters, some of them previously published only in rather inaccessible places, which have contributed to this change. The chapters cover four decades of work on pre-classical and classical Greece and some adjacent fields of scholarship, beginning in the 1960s when classical archaeology was not widely seen as a free-standing subject. They chart the progress of a movement for the intellectual independence of Greek archaeology and art, from history and textual studies and for recognition among other branches of archaeology. The key theme of the chapters is the importance of the Iron Age as the formative period in the making of classical Greece and the text varies this with comment on literature, history, anthropology, Aegean and European prehistory and Roman provincial archaeology. This collection represents innovative work in classical archaeology; challenges accepted boundaries and inhibitions; and is wide in scope, covering history, prehistory, art, literary interpretation, and field archaeology.
Stephen L. Dyson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110975
- eISBN:
- 9780300134971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110975.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter discusses the effect of World War II on classical archaeology. In May 1945, the war in Europe came to an end. Germany, the country that between the wars had been the greatest center for ...
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This chapter discusses the effect of World War II on classical archaeology. In May 1945, the war in Europe came to an end. Germany, the country that between the wars had been the greatest center for classical archaeology, was not only devastated but discredited by the crimes of the Nazis. In Italy the regime that had used classical archaeology for self-promotion was defeated and disgraced. The two principal victors, the Soviet Union and the United States, looked very differently at the classical past. Though their land had only limited contact with the Greco-Roman world through the Black Sea, the Russians had long been interested in classical archaeology, an expression of Russia's desire to identify with Western European culture. Those interests diminished markedly under the communist state, in which antiquity was studied mainly as a precapitalist social system that relied on the slave mode of production.Less
This chapter discusses the effect of World War II on classical archaeology. In May 1945, the war in Europe came to an end. Germany, the country that between the wars had been the greatest center for classical archaeology, was not only devastated but discredited by the crimes of the Nazis. In Italy the regime that had used classical archaeology for self-promotion was defeated and disgraced. The two principal victors, the Soviet Union and the United States, looked very differently at the classical past. Though their land had only limited contact with the Greco-Roman world through the Black Sea, the Russians had long been interested in classical archaeology, an expression of Russia's desire to identify with Western European culture. Those interests diminished markedly under the communist state, in which antiquity was studied mainly as a precapitalist social system that relied on the slave mode of production.
Lúcio Menezes Ferreira and Pedro Paulo A. Funari
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813060705
- eISBN:
- 9780813050911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813060705.003.0010
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Methodology and Techniques
This chapter discusses slavery and resistance in Brazil and the role of classical archaeology in developing modern slavery archaeology in Brazil. After discussing the early studies on Maroon ...
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This chapter discusses slavery and resistance in Brazil and the role of classical archaeology in developing modern slavery archaeology in Brazil. After discussing the early studies on Maroon Archaeology, it then turns to recent developments and outlook of the discipline. The overall thrust of the chapter’s argument is that the colonized situation of Brazil enabled classical archaeology to play a unique role in shaping progressive archaeology, including the study of slavery and resistance.Less
This chapter discusses slavery and resistance in Brazil and the role of classical archaeology in developing modern slavery archaeology in Brazil. After discussing the early studies on Maroon Archaeology, it then turns to recent developments and outlook of the discipline. The overall thrust of the chapter’s argument is that the colonized situation of Brazil enabled classical archaeology to play a unique role in shaping progressive archaeology, including the study of slavery and resistance.
Anthony Snodgrass
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623334
- eISBN:
- 9780748653577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623334.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter sets the recent and partial transformation in the content and practice of classical archaeology against the background of Thomas S. Kuhn's well-known work, The Structure of Scientific ...
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This chapter sets the recent and partial transformation in the content and practice of classical archaeology against the background of Thomas S. Kuhn's well-known work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962. A word or two is in place about Kuhn's analysis of how revolutions happen in the sciences, noting his view that, on an initially small scale, they happen very frequently. A ‘paradigm shift’ is what occurs when, perhaps at first in only one small part of one discipline, new beliefs, values and techniques are embraced. Really important paradigm shifts are ones which seriously interrupt the progress of the other main element of Kuhn's antithesis, ‘normal science’. This chapter presents examples which illustrate how, usually in combination, some of the following themes have recently been raised: rural life, domestic life, neglected periods, dedications, burial and the more backward regions of Greece.Less
This chapter sets the recent and partial transformation in the content and practice of classical archaeology against the background of Thomas S. Kuhn's well-known work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962. A word or two is in place about Kuhn's analysis of how revolutions happen in the sciences, noting his view that, on an initially small scale, they happen very frequently. A ‘paradigm shift’ is what occurs when, perhaps at first in only one small part of one discipline, new beliefs, values and techniques are embraced. Really important paradigm shifts are ones which seriously interrupt the progress of the other main element of Kuhn's antithesis, ‘normal science’. This chapter presents examples which illustrate how, usually in combination, some of the following themes have recently been raised: rural life, domestic life, neglected periods, dedications, burial and the more backward regions of Greece.
Stephen L. Dyson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110975
- eISBN:
- 9780300134971
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110975.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of ...
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The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and why artifacts have moved from foreign soil to collections around the world. Greek and Roman archaeological study was closely intertwined with ideas about class and social structure; the rise of nationalism and later political ideologies such as fascism; and the physical and cultural development of most of the important art museums in Europe and the United States, whose prestige depended on their creation of collections of classical art. This book shows how classical archaeology has influenced attitudes about areas as wide-ranging as tourism, nationalism, the role of the museum, and historicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art accompanied by a discussion of the history of each of the major national traditions and their significant figures.Less
The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and why artifacts have moved from foreign soil to collections around the world. Greek and Roman archaeological study was closely intertwined with ideas about class and social structure; the rise of nationalism and later political ideologies such as fascism; and the physical and cultural development of most of the important art museums in Europe and the United States, whose prestige depended on their creation of collections of classical art. This book shows how classical archaeology has influenced attitudes about areas as wide-ranging as tourism, nationalism, the role of the museum, and historicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art accompanied by a discussion of the history of each of the major national traditions and their significant figures.
Stephen L. Dyson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110975
- eISBN:
- 9780300134971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110975.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter focuses on the prehistory of classical archaeology. During the 1760s two developments arose in the states and smaller political entities of what became Germany that would profoundly ...
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This chapter focuses on the prehistory of classical archaeology. During the 1760s two developments arose in the states and smaller political entities of what became Germany that would profoundly shape the development of classical archaeology. One flowered on German soil and the other was the work of a German expatriate who spent his most productive years in Rome. The chapter reveals that the first involved the foundation of a “scientific” study of classics at the University of Göttingen. The chapter also discusses Johann Winckelmann (1717–68) whose legacy continues to shape and influence the field of classical archaeology the present. Along with other key figures such as Gotthold Efraim Lessing and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Winckelmann helped lay the foundations for the long tradition of passionate German involvement with the classical Mediterranean.Less
This chapter focuses on the prehistory of classical archaeology. During the 1760s two developments arose in the states and smaller political entities of what became Germany that would profoundly shape the development of classical archaeology. One flowered on German soil and the other was the work of a German expatriate who spent his most productive years in Rome. The chapter reveals that the first involved the foundation of a “scientific” study of classics at the University of Göttingen. The chapter also discusses Johann Winckelmann (1717–68) whose legacy continues to shape and influence the field of classical archaeology the present. Along with other key figures such as Gotthold Efraim Lessing and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Winckelmann helped lay the foundations for the long tradition of passionate German involvement with the classical Mediterranean.
Anthony Snodgrass
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623334
- eISBN:
- 9780748653577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623334.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Is there a problem with traditional classical archaeology, and if so, what is it? The effective loss of ‘ownership’, by British classical archaeology, of one of its former components, the archaeology ...
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Is there a problem with traditional classical archaeology, and if so, what is it? The effective loss of ‘ownership’, by British classical archaeology, of one of its former components, the archaeology of Roman Britain, gives some food for thought, regardless of any comparison with that of Roman Germany. The unification of Germany set in motion a whole series of schemes, backed by much-increased funding, in which archaeology played a much more central role than would be imaginable in Britain. In Britain, prehistory has for centuries been accepted as the dominant component of archaeology.Less
Is there a problem with traditional classical archaeology, and if so, what is it? The effective loss of ‘ownership’, by British classical archaeology, of one of its former components, the archaeology of Roman Britain, gives some food for thought, regardless of any comparison with that of Roman Germany. The unification of Germany set in motion a whole series of schemes, backed by much-increased funding, in which archaeology played a much more central role than would be imaginable in Britain. In Britain, prehistory has for centuries been accepted as the dominant component of archaeology.
Stephen L. Dyson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110975
- eISBN:
- 9780300134971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110975.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter focuses on the emergence of Greece as the archaeological center stage during the nineteenth century. This event was one of the most important changes in classical archaeology. At the ...
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This chapter focuses on the emergence of Greece as the archaeological center stage during the nineteenth century. This event was one of the most important changes in classical archaeology. At the start of the century, Greece represented a still little-known and rarely studied archaeological culture. By the end, the country was the focus of much of the best archaeological research. The chapter discusses the heightened archaeological interest in Greece re-inforced by two often contradictory cultural movements within Europe, neoclassicism and romanticism. Neoclassicism remained strong in the major European centers well into the early decades of the nineteenth century. The chapter also reveals that the romantic identity with Greece, especially its landscape, history, and people, began drawing a generation of travelers who were inspired by this Byronic vision.Less
This chapter focuses on the emergence of Greece as the archaeological center stage during the nineteenth century. This event was one of the most important changes in classical archaeology. At the start of the century, Greece represented a still little-known and rarely studied archaeological culture. By the end, the country was the focus of much of the best archaeological research. The chapter discusses the heightened archaeological interest in Greece re-inforced by two often contradictory cultural movements within Europe, neoclassicism and romanticism. Neoclassicism remained strong in the major European centers well into the early decades of the nineteenth century. The chapter also reveals that the romantic identity with Greece, especially its landscape, history, and people, began drawing a generation of travelers who were inspired by this Byronic vision.
Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061122
- eISBN:
- 9780813051406
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061122.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Using the concept of materiality as an interpretive framework, Carrie Sulosky Weaver presents an interdisciplinary examination of the Passo Marinaro necropolis (ca. 5th to 3rd c. BCE) for the purpose ...
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Using the concept of materiality as an interpretive framework, Carrie Sulosky Weaver presents an interdisciplinary examination of the Passo Marinaro necropolis (ca. 5th to 3rd c. BCE) for the purpose of reconstructing the synchronic dynamics, state of health and mortuary practices of Kamarina, an ancient Greek city-state in southeastern Sicily. By considering material evidence from the necropolis together with findings from the biological study of the human remains, a more complete portrait of the Kamarinean people emerges. The majority of people did not live past young adulthood, and throughout their lives, most experienced dental diseases, some developed degenerative joint disease, anemia and bone infections, others possessed physical deformities, and a few were the victims of interpersonal violence and possibly cancer. Kamarina was a place where magic and surgery were practiced, and individuals of diverse ethnicities and ancestries were united in life and death by shared culture and funerary practices. Through the combination of methods drawn from classical archaeology and physical anthropology, this study, the first of its kind for Greek Sicily, sheds new light on the life- and deathways of Kamarina in the 5th through 3rd c. BCE.Less
Using the concept of materiality as an interpretive framework, Carrie Sulosky Weaver presents an interdisciplinary examination of the Passo Marinaro necropolis (ca. 5th to 3rd c. BCE) for the purpose of reconstructing the synchronic dynamics, state of health and mortuary practices of Kamarina, an ancient Greek city-state in southeastern Sicily. By considering material evidence from the necropolis together with findings from the biological study of the human remains, a more complete portrait of the Kamarinean people emerges. The majority of people did not live past young adulthood, and throughout their lives, most experienced dental diseases, some developed degenerative joint disease, anemia and bone infections, others possessed physical deformities, and a few were the victims of interpersonal violence and possibly cancer. Kamarina was a place where magic and surgery were practiced, and individuals of diverse ethnicities and ancestries were united in life and death by shared culture and funerary practices. Through the combination of methods drawn from classical archaeology and physical anthropology, this study, the first of its kind for Greek Sicily, sheds new light on the life- and deathways of Kamarina in the 5th through 3rd c. BCE.
Keith Rutter
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474417099
- eISBN:
- 9781474426688
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417099.003.0018
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
A summary of Anthon’s career in Edinburgh, including not only the academic side but also his walking exploits in the highlands of Scotland.
A summary of Anthon’s career in Edinburgh, including not only the academic side but also his walking exploits in the highlands of Scotland.
Kate Nichols
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199596461
- eISBN:
- 9780191795770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596461.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
Chapter 2 explores the relationship between the Victorian entertainment industry and the emergent ‘professional’ classical archaeological establishment at mid-century. It offers the first overview of ...
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Chapter 2 explores the relationship between the Victorian entertainment industry and the emergent ‘professional’ classical archaeological establishment at mid-century. It offers the first overview of the role that classical sculpture and architecture played in nineteenth-century shows of London, spanning actors posing in bodystockings, medical wax work museums, casts at Madame Tussauds, and the Regent’s Park Colosseum. It provides the first detailed assessment of the public display of classical sculpture in 1850s Britain, at the British Museum and beyond, and situates these displays within the history of classical archaeology. It features detailed discussion of 1850s archaeological engagements at the Crystal Palace, looking at polychromy and the relationship between Greek ‘originals’ and Roman ‘copies’ of sculpture. It argues that in 1850s London, ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’, ‘entertainment’, and ‘education’ ought to be seen in tandem, rather than as polar opposites. It foregrounds the Crystal Palace as a prime location for exploring such connections.Less
Chapter 2 explores the relationship between the Victorian entertainment industry and the emergent ‘professional’ classical archaeological establishment at mid-century. It offers the first overview of the role that classical sculpture and architecture played in nineteenth-century shows of London, spanning actors posing in bodystockings, medical wax work museums, casts at Madame Tussauds, and the Regent’s Park Colosseum. It provides the first detailed assessment of the public display of classical sculpture in 1850s Britain, at the British Museum and beyond, and situates these displays within the history of classical archaeology. It features detailed discussion of 1850s archaeological engagements at the Crystal Palace, looking at polychromy and the relationship between Greek ‘originals’ and Roman ‘copies’ of sculpture. It argues that in 1850s London, ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’, ‘entertainment’, and ‘education’ ought to be seen in tandem, rather than as polar opposites. It foregrounds the Crystal Palace as a prime location for exploring such connections.
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190272333
- eISBN:
- 9780190272357
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190272333.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is home to some of the United States’ most prominent Neo-Antique mausolea, which used Classical and Egyptian motifs in their architecture and decor. ...
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Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is home to some of the United States’ most prominent Neo-Antique mausolea, which used Classical and Egyptian motifs in their architecture and decor. Using the lens of Classical archaeology, this paper undertakes a formal analysis of funerary architecture in specific tombs belonging to Jay Gould, Francis Garavan, William Leeds, the Goelet Brothers, Jules S. Bache, and F.W. Woolworth. This discussion examines the architecture of these tombs and their reception of ancient architecture alongside archival material. It also discusses individual patrons’ and architects’ motivations for requisitioning such forms. Finally, this analysis demonstrates that through the appropriation and redeployment of ancient architecture and motifs and through the landscape design of the tombs in Woodlawn, these mausolea were rich nexuses of public and private self-fashioning and place-making, and were an expression of elite culture.Less
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, is home to some of the United States’ most prominent Neo-Antique mausolea, which used Classical and Egyptian motifs in their architecture and decor. Using the lens of Classical archaeology, this paper undertakes a formal analysis of funerary architecture in specific tombs belonging to Jay Gould, Francis Garavan, William Leeds, the Goelet Brothers, Jules S. Bache, and F.W. Woolworth. This discussion examines the architecture of these tombs and their reception of ancient architecture alongside archival material. It also discusses individual patrons’ and architects’ motivations for requisitioning such forms. Finally, this analysis demonstrates that through the appropriation and redeployment of ancient architecture and motifs and through the landscape design of the tombs in Woodlawn, these mausolea were rich nexuses of public and private self-fashioning and place-making, and were an expression of elite culture.
G. E. Malouchou
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199652143
- eISBN:
- 9780191745935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652143.003.0013
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter examines two inscriptions from Athens that have been totally neglected since their discovery in the nineteenth century by Kyriakos Pittakes, the father of archaeology in Greece. The ...
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This chapter examines two inscriptions from Athens that have been totally neglected since their discovery in the nineteenth century by Kyriakos Pittakes, the father of archaeology in Greece. The first text is an unpublished fragment of the so-called phialai inscriptions, which have been traditionally thought to record manumitted slaves, their professions, and the bowls they dedicated to commemorate their confirmed free status following lawsuits. The second inscribed monument is a mortgage-horos of a piece of property that was probably owned by a woman. Amongst other remarkable aspects of this text, one should mention the identification of the creditor as a member of the liturgical class and the occurrence of a very unusual verbal form. The re-discovery of both inscriptions was based on close study of the archive of the nineteenth-century Greek archaeologist P. Eustratiades, a good reminder of the importance of scrutinizing the scholarly production of the early stage of Classical archaeology.Less
This chapter examines two inscriptions from Athens that have been totally neglected since their discovery in the nineteenth century by Kyriakos Pittakes, the father of archaeology in Greece. The first text is an unpublished fragment of the so-called phialai inscriptions, which have been traditionally thought to record manumitted slaves, their professions, and the bowls they dedicated to commemorate their confirmed free status following lawsuits. The second inscribed monument is a mortgage-horos of a piece of property that was probably owned by a woman. Amongst other remarkable aspects of this text, one should mention the identification of the creditor as a member of the liturgical class and the occurrence of a very unusual verbal form. The re-discovery of both inscriptions was based on close study of the archive of the nineteenth-century Greek archaeologist P. Eustratiades, a good reminder of the importance of scrutinizing the scholarly production of the early stage of Classical archaeology.
Robert J. Littman and Jay E. Silverstein
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054346
- eISBN:
- 9780813053073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054346.003.0007
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This chapter uses data from Tell Timai, Egypt to examine political dymanics in a Greco-Roman Egyptian city (Thmuis) in Late Antiquity, focusing on the Greek period of rule in Egypt and the influence ...
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This chapter uses data from Tell Timai, Egypt to examine political dymanics in a Greco-Roman Egyptian city (Thmuis) in Late Antiquity, focusing on the Greek period of rule in Egypt and the influence of Hellenism from Alexander’s conquest of Egypt (332 B.C.E.) to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic pharaoh (30 B.C.E.). The succeeding Ptolemaic dynasty strove to establish legitimacy through what Hellenization of the Egyptians, or Egyptization of the Greeks, generating new hybrid icons and deities. Yet as Ptolemy V took the throne, rebellion consumed Egypt. This Classical archaeology study offers insights into the dynamic processes of colonization and imperialism in a realm that was a crucible for Western ideology. Excavation data from north Timai reveal the violence of HellenisticLess
This chapter uses data from Tell Timai, Egypt to examine political dymanics in a Greco-Roman Egyptian city (Thmuis) in Late Antiquity, focusing on the Greek period of rule in Egypt and the influence of Hellenism from Alexander’s conquest of Egypt (332 B.C.E.) to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic pharaoh (30 B.C.E.). The succeeding Ptolemaic dynasty strove to establish legitimacy through what Hellenization of the Egyptians, or Egyptization of the Greeks, generating new hybrid icons and deities. Yet as Ptolemy V took the throne, rebellion consumed Egypt. This Classical archaeology study offers insights into the dynamic processes of colonization and imperialism in a realm that was a crucible for Western ideology. Excavation data from north Timai reveal the violence of Hellenistic
Martin Beckmann
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834619
- eISBN:
- 9781469603025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877777_beckmann.12
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter shows that, “compared with the noble Column of Trajan, that of Aurelius is in all ways inferior.” This was the opinion of Percy Gardner, professor of classical archaeology at Oxford ...
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This chapter shows that, “compared with the noble Column of Trajan, that of Aurelius is in all ways inferior.” This was the opinion of Percy Gardner, professor of classical archaeology at Oxford University in the late nineteenth century. Gardener's views on the value of the art of the Column of Marcus Aurelius were shared by many of his contemporaries. Eugen Petersen, even after becoming intimately acquainted with the column through many weeks spent on a platform hanging from its capital, still concluded that in comparison to the richness of Trajan's Column, “the art of the Marcus Column seems poor and sober, restricted to only the most essential components.” In the eyes of these early critics the sole redeeming feature of the Column of Marcus Aurelius was that it was Roman.Less
This chapter shows that, “compared with the noble Column of Trajan, that of Aurelius is in all ways inferior.” This was the opinion of Percy Gardner, professor of classical archaeology at Oxford University in the late nineteenth century. Gardener's views on the value of the art of the Column of Marcus Aurelius were shared by many of his contemporaries. Eugen Petersen, even after becoming intimately acquainted with the column through many weeks spent on a platform hanging from its capital, still concluded that in comparison to the richness of Trajan's Column, “the art of the Marcus Column seems poor and sober, restricted to only the most essential components.” In the eyes of these early critics the sole redeeming feature of the Column of Marcus Aurelius was that it was Roman.
