Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 BC (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology)

Frederiksen, Rune

Oxford University Press（2011/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.／サイズ 114 in-text illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199578122
• DDC分類 938.01

基本説明

Includes a complete catalogue of early Iron Age and Archaic city walls, with more than 100 plans, together with a full list of walls mentioned in written sources, with quotations and translations.

Full Description

In this fully illustrated study, Rune Frederiksen assembles all sources for Archaic city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier. Frederiksen discusses the types of fortified settlement and the topography of urban fortification, and also the preservation of structures from early settlements. He also presents an architectural history of Greek fortification walls before the Classical period, and makes the intriguing observation that early monumental architecture developed just as much in fortifications as it did in early temples. This underlines the importance of the secular sphere for the development of early communities across the Greek world.

Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. Types of fortification ; 3. City walls in the written record and the visual arts ; 4. Preservation of city walls ; 5. The archaeology of city walls ; 6. Dating city walls ; 7. Architectural and topographical analysis ; 8. The prevalence of city walls in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece ; Catalogue of city walls