{"title":"Georgios Deligiannakis. The Dodecanese and the Eastern Aegean Islands in Late Antiquity, AD 300–700.","authors":"Konstantinos Roussos","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.507","url":null,"abstract":"This substantial book derives from Deligiannakis’ doctoral thesis, and for this reason it is bibliographically updated until 2006, although it has been published 10 years later in 2016. It focuses on a particular chronological period – Late Antiquity (300–700) – during which insular communities played a major role on multiple levels. Despite the fact that it places a particular focus on the Dodecanese and the Eastern Aegean Islands, the author adopts a broader geographical perspective, using comparative material from both island (Crete, Cyprus, Cyclades etc.) and mainland regions (Asia Minor, Greek mainland etc.).","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125649329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The materiality of death, the supernatural and the role of women in Late Antique and Byzantine times","authors":"Athanasios K. Vionis","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.482","url":null,"abstract":"Although the association between women, funerary ritual and ‘magic’ in a burial context may initially seem atypical, it should be acknowledged that women have been related to birth and death throughout history. Due to their biological role in giving birth to a new human life, they may also ‘be expected to play a symmetrical role at the end of life’. Different practices related to funerary ritual and the commemoration of the dead, to the use and deposition of ritual artefacts and accompanying materials, are altogether aspects connected to a large extent with women and the domestic sphere. It has to be noted, however, that notions such as ‘religion’, ‘funerary cult’ and ‘magic’ are not always clear-cut, especially throughout Late Antiquity – Early Byzantine era (late 4th–early 8th centuries AD), when religious syncretism, or the accommodation of polytheistic traditions in Christian ideology, was common sense and a subconscious aspect of everyday life.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134066924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emily S.K. Anderson. Seals, craft and community in Bronze Age Crete.","authors":"J. Younger","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.497","url":null,"abstract":"After a list of illustrations (191 b/w), acknowledgements, and an introduction, five chapters and a lengthy appendix constitute the core of the book. There then follow references (bibliography), (end)notes, and an index. The book’s introduction and five chapters mostly present anthropological theories and constructions of Cretan society in the late PrePalatial period (ca. 2300–1900 BCE) seen through the lenses of other, presumably similar societies, cultures, and ethnologies as studied by a variety of quoted scholars. The chapter titles give an indication of themes, sometimes promising archaeological data (e.g., ‘Identity and Relation through Early Cretan Glyptic’ [ch. 2], ‘In the Hands of the Craftsperson: Innovation and Repetition across Cretan Communities’ [ch. 4]), sometimes teasing the reader with poetic playfulness (e.g., ‘Rethinking Prepalatial Crete: Social Innovation on an Island of Persistence’ [ch. 1], ‘Distance and Nearness: Fundamental Changes to the Dynamics of Seal Use in Late Prepalatial Crete’ [ch. 3]).","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132624682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The potential of a terrace-wise economy: Hygassos’ agricultural heritage in the Hellenistic Rhodian Peraia (Bozburun Peninsula)","authors":"E. Oğuz-Kırca, I. Liritzis, Volkan Demirciler","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.487","url":null,"abstract":"The Bozburun Peninsula (Hellenistic Rhodian Peraia, i.e the mainland possessions of ancient Rhodes) lies immediately north of the Island of Rhodes (Figure 1). It is an unspoiled (it used to be incredibly barren) territory which has remained as an area of seclusion throughout history.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"40 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132477772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The context and nature of the evidence for metalworking from mid 4th millennium Yali (Nissyros)","authors":"V. Maxwell, R. Ellam, N. Skarpelis, A. Sampsōn","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.473","url":null,"abstract":"In the wider Aegean, it is now recognised that the very end of the Neolithic is a key period in the evolution of communities and in the roots of changes observed in the succeeding Early Bronze Age. One important aspect of this change was involvement in metallurgy. Establishing the nature of early metallurgy could enrich our understanding of the processes of change at work at this time.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116680905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jerome J. Pollitt (ed.) The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World.","authors":"Tiziana D’Angelo","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.513","url":null,"abstract":"Reconstructing a single coherent history of painted images over almost two and a half millennia and across a wide variety of cultural contexts in the Mediterranean and Europe is a daunting task, especially today, at a time when the notions of diversity and multiplicity play a crucial role in the study of classical antiquity. The editor Jerome J. Pollitt introduces this study as the first attempt, after Mary Hamilton Swindler’s 1929 Ancient Painting, to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of ancient Greek and Roman panel and mural painting from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, and to offer a critical assessment of past and current research on the paintings’ style, technique, iconography and sociocultural context. This ambitious study gathers nine essays by world-leading experts in different areas of ancient painting and is an essential tool for both students and specialists.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"671 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117119216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myrina Kalaitzi. Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, Fifth–First Century BC.","authors":"S. Estrin","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.500","url":null,"abstract":"Myrina Kalaitzi dedicates this important new study of ancient Macedonian tombstones of the fifth through first centuries BC not to any named individual but to ‘the courageous reader.’ Most readers will not need courage to understand its familiar structure: a catalogue of surviving tombstones preceded by a chronological survey discussing major trends in the corpus. As Kalaitzi outlines in her Introduction, it is a structure determined less by a conceptual or theoretical model than by scholarly precedent – a structure that has been developed and deployed by scholars of ancient material culture on numerous occasions in order, ostensibly, to describe rather than interpret. The framework presumes that, when the corpus is addressed in comparative terms, visual patterns will emerge, ones that might tell us about cultural values shared between the people who produced or commissioned the individual monuments.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"6 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113932296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating geology into archaeology: the water supply of Piraeus in Antiquity","authors":"E. Chiotis","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.486","url":null,"abstract":"The peninsula of Piraeus is composed of the Mounichia Hill and the rocky Akti, connected through the NE-SW trending isthmus between the Kantharos and Zea harbors (Figure 1a). The great geomorphological advantage of the peninsula is its natural and safe harbors – Kantharos with the innermost Kophos Port, Zea and Mounichia – at a reasonable distance of eight kilometers from Athens.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"236 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132506758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Byzantine Kastra in the Dark Ages: the case of Oria Kastro on Kythnos","authors":"Christianna Veloudaki","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.484","url":null,"abstract":"During the first three centuries after the founding of the Eastern Empire, the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea knew a period of relative calm and prosperity, acting as supply stations for vessels following the sea routes to and from Constantinople. Most of them had flourishing maritime market towns that functioned as processing and exporting centres. From the 7th century onwards, however, it can be observed that many of these ancient coastal cities either shrank dramatically in size or were gradually abandoned and the so-called kastra, i.e. fortified settlements built on top of remote hilltops, took their place. Little is known about this transitional period (7th-9th century AD) in the Aegean world as there are barely any written sources and most of the ancient cities and the Byzantine kastra in the Cyclades remain undocumented. Consequently, the beginning of the transition process and the exact causes behind it remain unclear. Pirate raids and the Arab threat after the 640s are the reasons traditionally put forward by Greek and foreign scholars, however, recent studies suggest that the Arab fleets are unlikely to have been a serious threat to the islands before the occupation of Crete by the Andalus Muslims in AD 827.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130954081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Milena Melfi and Olympia Bobou (eds) Hellenistic Sanctuaries between Greece and Rome.","authors":"A. Spawforth","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.503","url":null,"abstract":"This volume deals with the period from 300 BC to AD 100. The sixteen chapters, all in English, arise from an Oxford conference in September 2010 taking the post-Classical polis sanctuary in Greece, Sicily and Magna Graecia as its focus. The main disciplinary emphasis is on classical archaeology and art; two chapters (Yves Lafond; Maria Kantirea) foreground epigraphy; another includes an excavator’s unpublished note revealing a new inscription about Damophon of Messene (Melfi in the second of her three contributions). The chapters are not grouped thematically, although two sub-divisions stand out: one dealing with broader topics and regions, and the other focused on a particular polis or sanctuary.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116831074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}