An age of experiment : classical archaeology transformed (1976-2014) /
"Between 7 and 9 November 2014 a Symposium was held at Magdalene College, Cambridge to honour Professor Anthony Snodgrass. The programme included papers both by his various colleagues and by his former students, under the title of 'Celebrating eighty years of Anthony Snodgrass' (since...
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Cambridge, UK :
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
[2018]
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| ISBN: | 9781902937809 1902937805 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements (Lisa Nevett and James Whitley) ; Chapter 1. Introduction: Anthony Snodgrass and the Transformation of Classical Archaeology / James Whitley (Classical archaeology: the state we{u2019}re in ; Anthony Snodgrass: Oxford, Edinburgh, Cambridge ; Anthony and his students: la scuola di Snodgrass? ; A paradigm shift in Classical archaeology? ; Classical archaeology transformed: Hamburg, Paris and London ; The German tradition and the British tradition ; Classical archaeology and Classical art history ; Global challenges and Classical archaeology ; Classical archaeology today) ; Part I. The Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period: The Aegean and Wider Mediterranean. Chapter 2. An Explosion, Not Revolution: Recasting Issues in the Greek Iron Age / David B. Small (What is complex adaptive systems theory? ; The usefulness of this model ; The mortuary record as a window into this period of transition ; Funeral feasting and Iron Age Crete ; The potential for using our Greek material in cross-cultural analysis ; Conclusion) ; Chapter 3. Gifts for Gods in an Early Polis, Zagora on Andros / Alexandra Coucouzeli (The deities of Zagora: a fresh examination of the evidence ; I. Heracles ; II. Poseidon ; III. Dioskouroi ; IV. Thetis ; V. (?)Hera ; VI. Miscellanea ; Discussion ; Conclusion) ; Chapter 4. The Krater and the Pithos: Two Kinds of Agency / James Whitley (Pithoi in the Cyclades, pithoi in Crete ; Travelling kraters ; Summary and conclusions) ; Chapter 5. Homeric Imagery / Robin Osborne ; Chapter 6. Parian Memory and the Greek {u2018}Colonization{u2019} of Thasos / Sara Owen (Archaic {u2018}Greek colonization{u2019} ; The Parian settlement of Thasos ; The literary evidence ; The inscriptions ; The contexts of the inscriptions ; Physical contexts of the inscriptions ; Conclusions) ; Chapter 7. Location, Location, Location: Site and Status in Sicilian Cemeteries / Gillian Shepherd (Locating the cemeteries ; Locating the grave ; Exclusive cemeteries? ; Conclusion) ; Part II. Structural Revolution(s). Chapter 8. Structural Revolution: Archaeology, the Rise of the Greek State, and the Shape of the Ancient World / Ian Morris ; Chapter 9. Events, Episodes and History: Chronology and the Resolution of Historical Processes / Sturt W. Manning (Correcting the clock: the Hyksos world and the history of the Aegean and East Mediterranean ; The end of the LBA and the Iron Age resurgence {u2013} climate and chronology ;Conclusions) ; Chapter 10. Structural History and Classical Archaeology: 25 Years On / Lisa Nevett (Evidence for change from the archaeological material at of Olynthos ; Conclusion) ; Part III. Landscape, Survey and the Longue Durée. Chapter 11.The Sh** That You Find on the Surface: Manuring and Field Survey in the Mediterranean Countryside / Paul Halstead (Agronomic (in)feasibility: too much and too little manure ; We plough the fields and scatter sherds? ; Conclusions) ; Chapter 12.The Materiality, Monumentality and Biography of Copper Slag on Cyprus / Michael Given (Slag ; Slag heap ; The life of slag ; Slag and sanctuary ; Conclusion) ; Chapter 13. Social History and Historical Archaeology in Greece. The Kefalonia and Andros Project, 2010{u2013}2014 / Thomas W. Gallant (Project goals and design ; Andros seasons 1 & 2 ; Landscape study and field systems ; Household archaeology ; Artifacts and activities ; Mills and milling ; Preliminary observations ; Next steps) ; Part IV. Historiography and Reception. Chapter 14. Revixit Ars : Artistic {u2018}Rebirth{u2019} in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Early Modern China and Europe / Jeremy Tanner (Copy cultures and cross-cultural comparison ; Replica series and the culture of copying in the Hellenistic{u2013}Roman world ; Artistic revival and the aesthetics of imitation in late Ming and early Qing China ; Reviving the past in the art of the Italian Renaissance and European neoclassicism ; Conclusion) ; Chapter 15. Ancient Greek Women in Eighteenth-century Europe: A Preliminary Survey / Giovanna Ceserani ; Chapter 16. Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern / Jonathan M. Hall ; Chapter 17. Convergers, Divergers and the Changing Contrarieties of Classical Archaeology / Susan E. Alcock ; List of Published Works of Anthony McElrea Snodgrass ; The Works of Anthony Snodgrass: A Short Bibliographic Essay (James Whitley).