Full Description
This luxuriously illustrated book surveys Greek archaeology from the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces to the subordination of the last Hellenistic kingdoms to Rome. Its aim is to study Greek art through the material record, and against its cultural and social backdrop. It takes the reader on a tour of ancient Greece along the most important period in its history, the 1st millennium BC.
Architecture, city planning, sculpture, painting, pottery, metallurgy, jewellery, and numismatics are some of the areas covered. With concise, systematic coverage of the main categories of classical monuments, the book caters for the non-specialist looking for the essential in ancient Greece, students of Greek archaeology and art, as well as anyone interested in Greek art and culture. The text is divided into accessible, user-friendly sections including case studies, terminology, charts, maps, a timeline and full index.
This is the first English language edition of the original Greek edition and was thoroughly revised and expanded by Dimitris Plantzos before translation by the British archaeologist Nicola Wardle.
592 colour illustrations.
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Classical archaeology: sources and methodology
Chronology
Map I: Greece and the eastern Mediterranean
CHAPTER 2 The Early Iron Age (1100-700 BC)
CHAPTER 3 The Archaic Period (700-480 BC)
CHAPTER 4 The Classical Period (480-336 BC)
Map II: the Hellenistic world
CHAPTER 5 The Hellenistic Period (336-30 BC)
Index
Sources of illustrations
