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Lost Cities
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Ancient Cities
This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban form, and on their cultural and histori-cal contexts. Architecture is key: the buildings that marked ancient cities, streets, squares, andother spaces in between; the arrangement of these elements in a city plan; and their functionsin ancient societies. Our aim is to see how buildings and objects made by people long gonehelp us understand the urban environments created and lived in by our distant ancestors in theMediterranean basin and the Near East. Geographical conditions are also important; they arehighlighted throughout. In addition, through most of the centuries treated here written recordsgive invaluable information about people and their activities and concerns. The written sourcesare constantly called upon to illuminate ancient life. Archaeology as presented in this book is thusa discipline nourished by many specialties: art and architectural history, urbanism, anthropology, geography, history, philology and literary studies; Ancient Near Eastern studies; Biblical studies;Egyptology; and Greek and Roman studies. 502Pag
Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation
This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting a number of lectures given at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2010-2012 in the frame of a seminar entitled La naissance des cités crétoises. Eight Cretan sites (Axos, Phaistos, Prinias, Karphi, Dreros, Azoria, Praisos, and Itanos), recently excavated or re-excavated, are considered in their regional and historical context in order to explore the origin and early development of the Greek city-state on the island.
Crete Beyond the Palaces
This volume presents papers from the conference "Crete 2000: A Centennial Celebration of American Archaeological Work on Crete (1900-2000)," held in Athens from July 10-12, 2000. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Study Center for East Crete organized the conference. Scholars participating in the American and joint Greek-American on Crete or studying material from these excavations were invited to present papers at the conference. The volume is divided into the following sections: Trade, Society and Religion, Chronology and History, Landscape and Survey, and Technology and Production.
The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World
This book reconstructs the origins and spread of precious metal money in the Iron Age eastern Mediterranean (1200-600 BCE).
Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space
The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purity and pollution, and created a ritual system premised on gender difference. Regional sanctuaries ameliorated competition between city-states, publicized the results of competitive rituals for males, and encouraged judicial alternatives to violence. Female ritual efforts, focused on reproduction and the health of the family, are less visible, but, as this provocative study shows, no less significant. Taking a fresh look at the epigraphical evidence for Greek ritual practice in the context of recent studies of landscape and political or...
