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Magna Graecia
This magnificent book presents 82 masterpieces of Greek vase painting and sculpture in terrocotta, stone, and bronze from the eight great museum collections of the South of Italy and Sicily. 170 colour illustrations
Deliciae Fictiles V. Networks and Workshops
Temples are the most prestigious buildings in the urban landscape of ancient Italy, emerging within a network of centres of the then-known Mediterranean world. Notwithstanding the fragmentary condition of the buildings’ remains, these monuments – and especially their richly decorated roofs – are crucial sources of information on the constitution of political, social and craft identities, acting as agents in displaying the meaning of images. The subject of this volume is thematic and includes material from the Eastern Mediterranean (including Greece and Turkey). Contributors discuss the network between patron elites and specialized craft communities that were responsible for the sophist...
Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory
This volume investigates the interaction between the natural environment, market forces and political entities in an ancient Sicilian town and its surrounding micro-region over the time-span of a thousand years. Focusing on the ancient polis of Kale Akte (Caronia) and the surrounding Nebrodi area on the north coast of Sicily, the book examines the city’s archaeology and history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have had a greater economic importance for Sicily and the wider Mediterranean world than its size and lowly political status would suggest. Also discussed is the gradual population shift away from the hill-top down to a growing harbour s...
Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliest Greek pottery exchanged in Greek, Phoenician, and other Indigenous Mediterranean cultural contexts from multidisciplinary perspectives. It offers an examination of 362 Protogeometric and Geometric ceramic and clay samples, analysed by Neutron Activation, that Stefanos Gimatzidis obtained in twenty-four sites and regions in eight countries. Bringing a macro-historical approach to the topic through a systematic survey of early Greek pottery production, exchange, and consumption, the volume also provides a micro-history of selected ceramic assemblages analysed by a team of scholars who specialise in Classical, Near Eastern, and various prehistoric archaeologies. The results of their collaborative archaeological and archaeometric studies challenge previous reconstructions of intercultural relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean and call into question established narratives about Greek and Phoenician migration.
Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean
This is the first detailed and comprehensive study of the shipsheds which were a defining symbol of naval power in the ancient Mediterranean.
Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time'
Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region - promoted the exploration of the island’s heritage through international collaboration. His decades of fostering research initiatives not only produced rich archaeological results spanning the Palaeolithic to the modern era but brought scholars from a range of schools and disciplines to work together in Sicily. Through his efforts, uniquely ...
Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World
Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.
KOINONIA
L’ampio numero di saggi presenti in questo volume costituisce una chiara testimonianza della ricca e apprezzata attività scientifica e umana che Giovanna De Sensi Sestito ha saputo intessere nel tempo col suo assiduo impegno nella ricerca e le sue apprezzate qualità personali e che si è per ciò stesso voluto richiamare nel titolo dato al volume. Pur nella diversità dei temi e dell’arco temporale toccato dai singoli contributi, il volume offre, senza che ciò fosse stato originariamente pianificato, un ampio percorso nella storia antica, reso immediatamente visibile dalle cinque parti in cui risulta articolato, che vanno dall’ampia sezione che accoglie saggi di taglio sia storico che storiografico dedicati all’Occidente greco, ad approfondimenti su temi relativi a momenti e aspetti della storia greca e di quella romana, con due ulteriori meno ricche ma significative sezioni che accolgono rispettivamente due saggi dedicati al mondo fenicio-punico e alcuni contributi di taglio metodologico o storiografico dedicati allo studio e al valore dell’antico nella modernità.
