{"title":"A. Bernard Knapp. Seafaring and seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean.","authors":"S. Wallace","doi":"10.32028/jga.v4i.498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.498","url":null,"abstract":"This well-priced short paperback (176 pages of text) has full references, an index, well-chosen and striking illustrations (the cover showing a Balearic scene) and several useful tables listing Ugaritic, Egyptian, Akkadian and Hittite text references of significance to the topic, as well as 5 maps, on which the lettering is somewhat too small for easy use. It will serve an informed public or student audience well as an expert guide to the known facts about how shipping and trade operated in the Bronze Age east Mediterranean, especially the Late Bronze Age (64 pages against 15 on the Early BA and 22 on the Middle BA).","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121691689","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":"Greek Paideia and Local Tradition in the Graeco-Roman East","authors":"D. Stavrou","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1q26hn4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26hn4","url":null,"abstract":"Greek Paideia and Local Tradition in the Graeco-Roman East enriches our knowledge and understanding of the process of Hellenization in the Graeco-Roman East. In the foreword to the volume it is stated that its aim was to study this process especially in areas of Asia Minor and Egypt and to a lesser extent in Syria. The volume examines the various elements involved in the interaction between Greek and local cultures, to show how various aspects of Greek culture were adopted and transformed by indigenous populations who converted such features ‘into their own identity traits’. This collection of essays shows how the process of Hellenization that took place in the dynamic environment of the Graeco-Roman East, peopled by various ethnic entities, was modified and manipulated over time.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125359713","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":"Maria Relaki and Yiannis Papadatos (eds) From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology. pp. 331, 69 b/w ills, 9 tables. 2018. Oxford: Oxbow Books (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology). ISBN 978-1-78570-926-5, paperback £38.","authors":"O. Dickinson","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.453","url":null,"abstract":"This volume contains final versions of the majority of papers given at the 14th Sheffield Round Table in Aegean Archaeology, 29-31 January 2010, so it has taken a long time to arrive, but it can be said straight away that specialists in Minoan archaeology should find it worth the wait. The Round Table was held to honour Keith Branigan, founder of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology, and its topics were evidently chosen to reflect the areas in which he has made particularly significant contributions. Thus, the papers published here are concerned principally with different aspects of the rich field of funerary activity, especially in the Prepalatial period, but also with patterns of settlement and land exploitation, and with the processes of development that brought the Minoan civilisation into being. The contribution by Relaki, the co-editor (Ch. 2), stands out in focusing on another field in which Branigan was active at an early stage, that of developments in technology, their spread within Crete, and their links with the outside world, notably the Cyclades and Egypt.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125883299","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":"Dimitros E. Psarros. Το Αϊβαλί και η Μικρασιατική Αιολίδα [Ayvalik and Aiolis of Asia Minor]. pp. 627, with b/w and col. ills, 1 map in bag pocket. 2017. Athens: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece (MIET). ISBN 978-960-250-687-5","authors":"Michalis Karambinis","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.468","url":null,"abstract":"This is a particular book, written by a refugee of second generation from Aivalik, who dedicated his life to the history of his homeland (he has studied Aivalik from 1969 till his death in 2008). An electrical engineer and architect by profession, a ‘‘technician’ and not an academic or a professional writer’, as Psarros himself states (579), the author prepared a book free of the scientific constraints that sometimes academic writings possess. Although his focus was on topography, settlement evolution and architecture, the author was not afraid to enter into the field of history, and the information he includes from his numerous oral interviews enlivens the places the author describes. In fact, reading, or better, wandering through the book, one has the feeling that he meets Fotis Kontoglou’s ‘heroes’ of his Το Αϊβαλί η πατρίδα μου (Athens 1962).","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127232609","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":"Enora Le Quéré, Les Cyclades sous l’Empire romain: Histoire d’un renaissance. pp. 456, b/w ills. 2015. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (Collection: Histoire). ISBN 978-2-7535-4045-3, paperback €23","authors":"Michalis Karambinis","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.466","url":null,"abstract":"This is the fourth book dedicated to the Cyclades during the Roman period, after P. Nigdelis’ Πολίτευμα και Κοινωνία των Κυκλάδων κατά την Ελληνιστική και Αυτοκρατορική Περίοδο, Thessaloniki (University of Thessaloniki) 1990, L. Mendoni’s and S. Zoumbaki’s Roman Names in the Cyclades. Part I, Athens (National Hellenic Research Foundation) 2008, and S. Raptopoulos’, Κυκλάδες Νήσοι: Συμβολή στην Οικονομική τους Ιστορία κατά την Ελληνιστική και Αυτοκρατορική Εποχή, Tripolis (Archaeological Institute of Peloponnesian Studies) 2014. Le Quéré’s book essentially updates that of Nigdelis. Mendoni’s and Zoumbaki’s study is a catalogue of Roman names, while Raptopoulos’ work has clearly a more archaeological perspective.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125371187","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":"Barbara A. Barletta. The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion. pp. 360, with col. and b/w ills. 2018. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Ancient Art and Architecture in Context 4). ISBN: 978-0-87661-967-4, hardcover £65.","authors":"Hans Lohmann","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.460","url":null,"abstract":"The extensive and lavishly illustrated book by Barletta is partly based on an unpublished manuscript by H.A. Thompson, the former director of the Agora Excavations, and of W.B. Dinsmoor Jr., the architect of the excavation. It was first editorially revised by M. McAllister and finally Barletta assumed the task to publish it after her own intensive studies of the sanctuary and its remains. Because of her untimely death, she did not see the final publication which was provided meticulously by D. Scahill.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126736815","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":"Kyle Erickson, The Early Seleukids, their Gods and their Coins. pp. xiv + 189, 46 ills. 2018. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-41579-376-6, hardcover £96.00","authors":"K. Rutter","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.465","url":null,"abstract":"This book examines the coinage of rulers of the Seleucid kingdom down to the reign of Antiochus IV, with particular reference to the deployment on coins of images of divinities that were designed to symbolise and support Seleucid authority, which in its turn required the repeated re–creation of Seleucid legitimacy. Crucial questions throughout are: why was a specific coin type chosen? And, why did the coin iconography develop and change along the lines it did? An introductory chapter covers some of the historical background to Seleucid rule, and introduces (some of) the way(s) in which the images on coins can provide insights into the nature of that rule – in particular by the creation of a Seleucid identity and ideology that was based not only on military success, but also on the support of the gods, in particular Zeus and Apollo. A key conclusion is that some of the images can be interpreted in a ‘polyvalent context’ (p. 9), that is, they could have communicated different meanings depending on the different locales and religious traditions in which they were used. From this point of view an important aim of the book is a better understanding of the ways in which the Seleucid kings related to their native populations. Thus, in Chapter 2 the role of the image of the archer god Apollo sitting on the omphalos is assessed in terms of its potential significance in different areas of the empire: Asia Minor, the Syrian tetrapolis, Babylonia, and Iran.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116032514","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":"Hjalmar Torp. La rotonde palatine à Thessalonique: Architecture et mosaïques. 2 Vols. pp. 568, 192 col. and b/w ills and plates. 2018. Athens: Éditions Kapon. ISBN: 978-618-5209-37-7, hardcover €86.","authors":"Jan Elsner","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.467","url":null,"abstract":"The great American satirist, Tom Lehrer, once said (in relative youth) ‘when Mozart was my age, he’d been dead two years’. When Hjalmar Torp began to write about the Rotunda (or Church of St George) in Thessaloniki, this reviewer hadn’t been born for 8 years… Torp’s first contribution to the study of this remarkable and enigmatic building was published in 1954. It was the beginning of a string of discussions. If anyone knows this monument really well, it is the great – now 95-year-old – doyen of Norwegian early Christian archaeology. What he has published here is a beautifully produced and lovingly written summa of a lifetime’s work, with publications spanning French, Norwegian and English over 65 years – a period that included significant events in the lifetime of the building itself, such as the damage of the earthquake of 1978 and the painstaking restorations thereafter. The book is commanding, comprehensive and fundamental, and the addition of a brief typology of the portraits of the saints by the distinguished art historian Bente Kiilerich is welcome (pp. 187-93).","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115227012","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":"Sarah James. Hellenistic Pottery: The Fine Wares. Corinth VII.7. pp. 360, with 45 ills, 44 plates, 3 plans, 3 tables. 2018. Princeton NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 978-0-87661-077-0, hardcover £150.","authors":"Dries Daems","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.463","url":null,"abstract":"The latest edition in the Corinth volumes, Hellenistic Pottery: The Fine Wares by Sarah James, is the seventh instalment of the pottery volumes, initiated by Saul Weinberg in 1943. It provides a much-needed extension and revision of the chronology of Hellenistic pottery posited in Roger Edwards’ book Corinthian Hellenistic Pottery, which was published as the third volume in this series in 1975.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"56 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126365090","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":"Giorgos Vavouranakis, Konstantinos Kopanias and Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos (eds). Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. pp. xviii + 170, with col. and b/w ills. 2018. Oxford: Archaeopress.","authors":"G. Papantoniou","doi":"10.32028/jga.v5i.469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.469","url":null,"abstract":"Popular religion falls under the wider field of popular culture, and has only recently been recognised as an independent subject for historical investigation. This volume concerns popular religion and ritual in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, and is the result of a conference held in December 2012 at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.","PeriodicalId":382834,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Greek Archaeology","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133918246","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}