{"title":"The Bellerophon Myth in Early Corinthian History and Art","authors":"Angela Ziskowski","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.83.1.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.83.1.0081","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the 7th century b.c., the popularity of the Bellerophon myth in Corinthian art and textual references argues for the importance of this story in the early history of the community. The myth connects Corinth with both the imagined land of Ephyre referenced in the Iliad and the fountain of Peirene, a prominent landmark in the city. In the 6th century and later, however, Herakles, another monster-slayer associated with the Peloponnese and water sources, usurped facets of Bellerophon's character in Corinthian vase painting. The author explores the reasons for the changing interpretation of the myth of Bellerophon in Archaic Corinth.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80416155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulacra Civitatum at Roman Corinth","authors":"Aileen Ajootian","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.83.2.0315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.83.2.0315","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the early a.d. 120s, Hadrian employed the Peloponnesian Achaian League to unify the cities of the province Achaia. Roman Corinth's role as urban leader of the League may have been formalized by the renovation of the Lechaion Road Basilica, embellished with an unusual sculpture program that included heroes, gods, and personifications representing Peloponnesian member cities. The relief figures could even have represented the itinerary of Hadrian's first visit as emperor to Greece in a.d. 124. The sculptures may have adorned the Lechaion Road Basilica and offer a profile of the city and the Achaian koinon just before the initiation of the Panhellenion in Athens.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78775487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bronze Statuettes from the Athenian Agora: Evidence for Domestic Cults in Roman Greece","authors":"Heather Sharpe","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.83.1.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.83.1.0143","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study presents two deposits of bronze statuettes discovered in the Athenian Agora. Both groups were found with material associated with the Herulian sack of a.d. 267/8. The author proposes that these statuettes were used in the service of domestic cults. The Greek, Roman, and Egyptian deities represented illustrate the diversity of domestic cult activities current in Athens during the mid-3rd century a.d. While the deposits provide some evidence for Roman domestic cult practices in Athens, it is clear that Greek cult practices remained the dominant tradition.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89703422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flights of Archaeology: Peschke's Acrocorinth","authors":"Kostis Kourelis","doi":"10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.86.4.0723","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Georg Vinko von Peschke (1900–1959) was a celebrated artist in 1930s Greece and a staff member of the American School excavations in Corinth, Isthmia, and Olynthos. His large work Acrocorinth (1932), painted while carrying out the castle's architectural survey, provides insights into the creative dimensions behind the School's scholarly identity. Peschke brought archaeological practices into a direct conversation with modernist poetics that sought to incorporate old historical landscapes with new and radical conceptions of the self. Through Peschke, American archaeologists turned Corinth into an interdisciplinary laboratory that explored the interface of digging, dwelling, and thinking.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89759346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hellenistic Sculpture from the Athenian Agora, Part 4: The East Pediment and Akroteria of the Temple of Apollo Patroos","authors":"Andrew M. Stewart","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.86.2.0273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.86.2.0273","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article attributes five fragmentary sculptures from the Agora excavations to the east pediment and akroteria of the Temple of Apollo Patroos, on the basis of their scale, technique, style, and subjects. Comprising an epiphany of Apollo with the Muses in the pediment and the slaughter of the Niobids above it, the ensemble is dated to ca. 306–300 B.C. in accord with the temple's revised date of ca. 313–300 proposed by Mark Lawall in 2009. Its religious and political significance is examined. Two appendixes revisit Euphranor's statue of Apollo Patroos and other sculptural fragments found around the temple, and the Niobids that Pausanias saw in the choregic monument of Thrasyllos.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83946279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LAST MEN STANDING: Chlamydatus Portraits and Public Life in Late Antique Corinth","authors":"A. Brown","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.81.1.0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.81.1.0141","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:ABSTRACTNotable among the marble sculptures excavated at Corinth are seven portraits of men wearing the long chlamys of Late Antique imperial office. This unusual costume, contemporary portrait heads, and inscribed statue bases all help confirm that new public statuary was created and erected at Corinth during the 4th and 5th centuries. These chlamydatus portraits, published together here for the first time, are likely to represent the Governor of Achaia in his capital city, in the company of local benefactors. Among the last works of the ancient sculptural tradition, they form a valuable source of information on public life in Late Antique Corinth.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88160587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stamps on Italian Sigillata and the Renaissance of Aptera, Crete","authors":"M. Bowsky","doi":"10.2972/hesperia.83.3.0503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.83.3.0503","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study presents a group of stamps on Italian sigillata dating from the 1st to mid-2nd centuries a.d. that were discovered at Aptera, Crete. Most were discovered in systematic excavations of the city's theater; the rest were collected or found in areas associated with two cisterns and one of the baths. This study not only increases the total number of published stamps from Crete, but it also enhances our understanding of the provenience and chronological profiles of the Italian sigillata imported to the island. Comparison with stamps from other cities and sites on Crete and in the Greek East documents the island's position at the crossroads of patterns of contact and exchange.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80017040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OF BATTLE, BOOTY, AND (CITIZEN) WOMEN: A \"New\" Inscription from Archaic Axos, Crete","authors":"Paula J. Perlman","doi":"10.2972/HESP.79.1.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESP.79.1.79","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The author purpose a join between two previously unassociated inscribed blocks from Axos,Crete.These Archaic inscriptinns (ICII v5 and ICII v6) are now lost, but published descriptions and drawings of the blocks, along with the text that results from this virtual join, strongly support their association.The new, composite text preserves part of a law or interstate agreement and appears to concern rituals attendant to war; it is examined here in the broader context of Cretan dedicatory habits and society during the Late Iron Age and the Archaic period.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88264405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Excavations at Nemea, 1997–2001","authors":"S. Miller","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.84.2.0277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.84.2.0277","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Excavations at the Sanctuary of Nemean Zeus during the period 1997–2001 made significant additions to our knowledge of the site in all its periods from the prehistoric to the modern. Chief among them in the Archaic period are the Early Temple of Zeus, the Early Stadium, the Heroön of Opheltes, and the hippodrome. From the Early Hellenistic period come a well and a reservoir, in addition to increased evidence of a Macedonian presence. These discoveries and others point the way for future excavations to reveal more of the physical aspects of the Nemean Games, particularly in the age of Pindar.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88453548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PANATHENAIC SHIPS: The Iconographic Evidence","authors":"S. Wachsmann","doi":"10.2972/HESPERIA.81.2.0237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2972/HESPERIA.81.2.0237","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:ABSTRACTThe author examines the limited surviving iconographic evidence for the physical appearance of the Panathenaic ship. The Calendar Frieze on the Church of Ayios Eleutherios (Little Metropolis) in Athens presumably depicts the 12 Athenian months, with the Panathenaic ship representing the month of Hekatombaion. Although badly damaged, the frieze preserves details of the vessel, its rig, and land transport system. This representation demonstrates clearly that the Panathenaic ship is patterned after an Archaic galley. A ship model/lamp from the Erechtheion may represent the Panathenaic ship. Finally, the author evaluates two additional ship representations—one from the Kerameikos and one from the City Eleusinion—identified previously as representations of the Panathenaic ship.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77419831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}