The archaeology of ancient Greece
| Main Author: | Whitley, James. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Physical Description: |
xxvi, 484 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Series: |
Cambridge world archaeology.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Approaches to Greek Archaeology:
- Introduction: classical archaeology and its objects
- Great traditions: classical scholarship and classical archaeology
- Modern archaeologies of Greece
- Chronology and terminology
- Part II. Archaic Greece:
- Archaic Greece, 1000-700 BC
- Aegean, the Levant and the West: the orientalising phenomenon
- Gods, heroes and sacred places
- City, the state and the Polis
- Art, narrative and monumentality
- Regional archaeologies
- Part III. Classical Greece:
- Defining the classical: classical art
- Cities and sanctuaries of Classical Greece
- Archaeology of democracy: Classical Athens
- Beyond the Polis: the countryside of Classical Greece
- Epilogue: towards Hellenistic archaeology.