The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass
Published on 18. October 2016
Book
Hardback
472 pages
978-1-4744-1709-9 (ISBN)
Description
Over his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Edinburgh University (1961-1976), Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge (1976-2001) and currently Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass has influenced and been associated with a long series of eminent classical archaeologists, historians and linguists.
In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey. Not only do they celebrate his achievements but they also represent new avenues of research which will have a broad appeal.
In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey. Not only do they celebrate his achievements but they also represent new avenues of research which will have a broad appeal.
Reviews / Votes
The authors of this book, former colleagues or students of Anthony Snodgrass, offer excellent and in part personal contributions that demonstrate in a wide variety of ways the lasting impact of his scholarship - an attracting force that clearly stimulated the distinguished interdisciplinary papers collected here. * Franziska Lang, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
30 black and white illustrations, 130 colour illustrations, 1 black and white table
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1066 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-1709-9 (9781474417099)
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Persons
John Bintliff is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century AD (2012), The Death of Archaeological Theory? ( 2011), Conceptual Issues in Environmental Archaeology (EUP, 1988). He is the editor of A Companion to Archaeology (2003). Keith Rutter (1939 - 2024) was Honorary Fellow & Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Edinburgh.
Content
Preface, John Bintliff and Keith Rutter
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Section I: Prehistory
1. 'The coming of the Greeks' and all that, Oliver Dickinson
2. Archaeology and the archaeology of the Greek language, Torsten Meissner
3. Survey, excavation and the appearance of the early polis: a reappraisal, Vladimir Stissi
Section II: Around Homer
4. Homer and the ekphrasists: text and picture in the Elder Philostratus's Scamander (Imagines I.1), Jas Elsner and Michael Squire
5. Homer's audience: what did they see? Annie Schnapp
6. Homer and the Sculptors, Nigel Spivey
Section III: the Archaic and Classical Greek World
7. Potters, hippeis and gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth) - 7th. to 6th. cents. BC, Bruno D'Agostino and M. G. Palmieri
8. Space, Society, Religion: a short retrospective and prospective note, Francois de Polignac
9. Modelling the territories of Attic demes: a computational approach, Sylvian Fachard
10. Hesiod and the disgraceful shepherds. Pastoral politics in a panhellenic Dichterweihe? Jose Gonzales
11. 'Is painting a representation of visible things?' Conceptual reality in Greek art: a first sketch, Tonio Hoelscher
12. Coins in a 'home away from home': the case of Sicily, Keith Rutter
Section IV: The Greeks and their Neighbours
13. Life on earth and death from heaven, Ernst Kuenzl
14. The idea of an archetype in texts stemming from the empire founded by Cyrus the Great, Gregory Nagy
Section V: The Roman and Much Wider World
5. Loropeni and other large enclosed sites in the south-west of Burkina Faso: an outside archaeological view, Henry Hurst
16. The poetry of ruins in the Greek and Roman world, Alain Schnapp
17. Context matters: Pliny's Phryges and the Basilica Aemilia in Rome, Rolf Schneider
Section VI: Anthony Snodgrass in the University and in the Field: Personal Histories
18. Anthony in Edinburgh, Keith Rutter
19. Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: a personal appreciation, Paul Cartledge
20. The first thirty-six years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece, John Bintliff
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Section I: Prehistory
1. 'The coming of the Greeks' and all that, Oliver Dickinson
2. Archaeology and the archaeology of the Greek language, Torsten Meissner
3. Survey, excavation and the appearance of the early polis: a reappraisal, Vladimir Stissi
Section II: Around Homer
4. Homer and the ekphrasists: text and picture in the Elder Philostratus's Scamander (Imagines I.1), Jas Elsner and Michael Squire
5. Homer's audience: what did they see? Annie Schnapp
6. Homer and the Sculptors, Nigel Spivey
Section III: the Archaic and Classical Greek World
7. Potters, hippeis and gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth) - 7th. to 6th. cents. BC, Bruno D'Agostino and M. G. Palmieri
8. Space, Society, Religion: a short retrospective and prospective note, Francois de Polignac
9. Modelling the territories of Attic demes: a computational approach, Sylvian Fachard
10. Hesiod and the disgraceful shepherds. Pastoral politics in a panhellenic Dichterweihe? Jose Gonzales
11. 'Is painting a representation of visible things?' Conceptual reality in Greek art: a first sketch, Tonio Hoelscher
12. Coins in a 'home away from home': the case of Sicily, Keith Rutter
Section IV: The Greeks and their Neighbours
13. Life on earth and death from heaven, Ernst Kuenzl
14. The idea of an archetype in texts stemming from the empire founded by Cyrus the Great, Gregory Nagy
Section V: The Roman and Much Wider World
5. Loropeni and other large enclosed sites in the south-west of Burkina Faso: an outside archaeological view, Henry Hurst
16. The poetry of ruins in the Greek and Roman world, Alain Schnapp
17. Context matters: Pliny's Phryges and the Basilica Aemilia in Rome, Rolf Schneider
Section VI: Anthony Snodgrass in the University and in the Field: Personal Histories
18. Anthony in Edinburgh, Keith Rutter
19. Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: a personal appreciation, Paul Cartledge
20. The first thirty-six years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece, John Bintliff