ARCL1004: Introduction to Greek archaeology: Dr Corinna Riva Academic Year 2012/13
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Introductory readings and online references 10 items
The following are good general texts covering subject matter of the course. Please ask if you require further advice.
Online resources:
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Classical archaeology - , 20070631234187,0631234195,9780631234180,9780631234197
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Classical archaeology in the field: approaches - 20011853996173
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The Cambridge illustrated history of ancient Greece - 19980521481961
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Classical landscape with figures: the ancient Greek city and its countryside - 19870911378731
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Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC - 19960415035821,041503583X
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An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline - c19870520058550,0520078926
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The archaeology of ancient Greece - 20010521622050
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Consult the following about any topic, site, name, concept but do ask the lecturer also!
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The Oxford classical dictionary - , c20030198606419,9780198606413
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1. FRAMEWORKS 57 items
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Lecture 1: Introduction: the Greek world and archaeology 5 items
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Art, artefacts, and chronology in classical archaeology - 19920415063183,0415063191
Book Essential
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Familiar but exotic. Why Greece needs history -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The search for ancient Greece - , 19920500300208
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Dating -
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The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites - , , 19760691035423
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Lecture 2: Topography, environment and ecology 8 items
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Chapter Essential Diditised reading
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Introduction: the domestic economy and subsistence risk -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world: responses to risk and crisis - 19880521351987
Book Recommended Parts I-II and III (Athenian case study) if time allows
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The nature of Mediterranean Europe: an ecological history - , 20010300084439
Book Recommended Especially chapters 1-6, 9-11
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Tradition and ancient rural economy in Mediterranean Europe: plus ca change? - 1987
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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The corrupting sea: a study of Mediterranean history - , c20000631136665,0631218904,9780631218906
Book Recommended Chapter VI and III-V if time allows
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Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world - , c2000069103169x,0691049459,0691049629
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Lecture 3: The Greeks and their neighbours (I) 12 items
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The Greeks overseas: their early colonies and trade - c19990500281092
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading
For information on the site of Kommos, Crete, used for trade by the Phoenicians during the Iron Age, click here
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Al Mina and history - 1990
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Greece between East and West 10th-8th centuries BC: papers of the meeting at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, March 15-16th, 1990 - , , c19923805314914
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The Western Greeks: classical civilization in the Western Mediterranean - 19960500237263
Book Recommended An excellent collection of photos of sites and material and plans of Greek settlements in the 'West'; however, the text is often poorly translated
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Greek penetration of the Black Sea -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
For information on the site of Chersonesos, a Black Sea Greek settlement, click here
For information on the Greek colony of Croton, Italy, click here
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Lecture 4: The Greeks and their neighbours (II) 12 items
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A colonial middle ground: Greek, Etruscan and local elites in the bay of Naples -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Linking with a wider world. Greeks and 'barbarians' -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Athens, Etruria and the Heuneberg: mutual misconceptions in the study of Greek-barbarian relations - ,
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The Iron Age in Mediterranean France. Colonial encounters, entanglements and transformations - 1997
Article Recommended Electronic journal
For information about Gallo-Greek contacts and the oppidum of Entremont, France, click here
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Local responses to colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean - 20060415378362
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Daidalos and the origins of Greek art - 19920691035997
Book Recommended Chapter 5
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The view from East Greece: Miletus, Samos and Ephesus -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
On Bernal's 'Black Athena' a good set of reviews is set out in:
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Black Athena revisited - , c19960807822469,0807845558
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Article Recommended This issue of the journal available only in print at UCL.
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Lecture 5: The Classical tradition: the 'New Archaeology' and beyond 9 items
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The search for ancient Greece - , 19920500300208
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The great tradition versus the great divide: archaeology as anthropology - 1980
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Antiquities as symbolic capital in modern Greek society - , 1996
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Description of Greece: 1: Books I-II - , 1918
Book Recommended Digitised reading; best read in the Loeb edition; the most important 'Archaeological book of antiquity'
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Classical archaeology of Greece: experiences of the discipline - 19950415085217
Book Recommended E-book. Especially chapters 3-6
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The new archaeology and the classical archaeologist - 1985
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Lecture 6: Classical Archaeology today: case studies 11 items
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The city of Olynthos: a detailed case-study in domestic organisation -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The social context of literacy in archaic Greece and Etruria - , 1988
Article Essential Electronic journal
For information on the Kythera Island Project, click here
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Side-by-side survey: comparative regional studies in the Mediterranean World - , 20041842170961
Book Recommended Especially papers by Alcock and Cherry, Davis and Osborne
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A city of images: iconography and society in ancient Greece - 19890691035911
Book Recommended Chapters 1 and 2 and select one or two case studies from 3-10
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Interaction by design: the Greek city state -
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The rural landscape of ancient Greece -
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The red and the black: studies in Greek pottery - 19960415126606,0415126614
Book Recommended Chapters 1 and 6
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Beyond the Acropolis: a rural Greek past - , 19870804713898
Book Recommended Especially introduction and chapters 1-2, 6-9
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2. CITIES AND SETTLEMENTS 54 items
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Lecture 7: The Bronze Age: Minoan and Mycenaean palace-states 8 items
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The palace civilizations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece 2000-1200 BC -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The Aegean civilizations: from ancient Crete to Mycenae - 19890714824712
Book Essential Chapters 2, 5 and 6
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Minoan palaces - 1985
Article Essential Electronic journal
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The Mycenaean world - 19760521210771,0521290376
Book Recommended Chapters 2, 5-8
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Polities and palaces: some problems in Minoan state-formation -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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The Aegean Bronze age - 19940521242800
Book Recommended Especially Introduction and chapter 4
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Thera: Pompeii of the ancient Aegean - c19830500390169
Book Recommended Chapters 4-5
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The aerial atlas of ancient Crete - , , , c19920520073827
Book Recommended Superb aerial photographs of many Minoan sites. Browse.
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Lecture 8: The Early Iron Age and Homeric epic 12 items
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Chapter Essential
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Reading the texts: archaeology and the Homeric question - 1990
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Early Iron Age Greece, 1000-700 BC -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The world of Odysseus - 19770701122447
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From rulers' dwellings to temples: architecture, religion and society in early Iron Age Greece (1100-700 B.C.) - 19979170811520
Book Recommended pp. 48-57 on Lefkandi, pp. 74-80 on Nichoria, pp. 85-86 on Emborio Chios, pp. 358-374 on 'Homeric questions'
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The Use and Abuse of Homer - Apr., 1986
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Archaeology as cultural history: words and things in Iron Age Greece - 20000631174095,0631196021
Book Recommended Chapters 3-7
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Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC - 19960415035821,041503583X
Book Recommended Chapters 2 and 4-5
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Lefkandi and the Greek Dark Age -
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An Historical Homeric Society? -
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The early Iron Age of Greece -
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Early states and hero cults: a re-appraisal -
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Lecture 9: Archaic Greece: the rise of the polis 14 items
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Networks and the Emergence of Greek Identity - 2003
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The early polis as city and state -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Early Greek colonization? The nature of Greek settlements in the West -
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Metapontum: land, wealth and population -
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Trade and Agriculture at Megara Hyblaia - 2002
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The Greek renaissance of the eighth century B.C.: tradition and innovation - 19839185086584
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The Greek renaissance of the eighth century B.C.: tradition and innovation - 19839185086584
Book Recommended Especially chapter 1, pages 1-25
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The city in the Greek and Roman world - 1991041501896x
Book Recommended Chapters 1-3
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Cults, territory, and the origins of the Greek city-state - , , 19950226673332
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Archaeology and the study of the Greek city -
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For information on the site of Metaponto, click here
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Lecture 10: Classical Greece: the Classical city and Hippodamian planning 8 items
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Images and political identity: the case of Athens -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Cities of ancient Greece and Italy: planning in classical antiquity - 19740807606790
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The Athenian Agora: excavations in the heart of classical Athens - 19980500276838
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The city of Athens: space, symbol, structure -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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L'urbanisme dans la Grèce antique - 1956
Book Recommended Especially pages 97-126
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Isonomous t'Athenas epoiesaten - the Agora and the Democracy -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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How the Greeks built cities - 1976, c19620393008142
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Lecture 11: Hellenistic and Roman Greece: the impact of Empires 12 items
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Graecia capta: the landscapes of Roman Greece - 19930521401097
Book Essential Detailed analysis of evidence for rural settlement based on several recent surveys
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What is 'Hellenistic' about Hellenistic art? -
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The World of the Panhellenion. I. Athens and Eleusis -
Article Essential Electronic journal
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The World of the Panhellenion: II. Three Dorian Cities -
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Greece: a landscape of resistance? -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: a tale of two cities - , 19890415032903
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Alexandria: rediscovered - , , , [1998]0714119210
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Athens from Alexander to Antony - 19970674051114
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The Greeks in the Orient: from Syria to Bactria -
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Roman architecture in the Greek world - , , 19870500990476
Book Recommended H. Thompson on Athens, C. Williams on Corinth
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The Greek world after Alexander, 323-30 B.C. - 20000415046173,0415046181
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Faces of power: Alexander's image and Hellenistic politics - 19930520068513
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3. THE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF RELIGION 33 items
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Lecture 12: Kings, oligarchs, tyrants and democrats: the changing nature of power in the Greek world 10 items
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The uses and abuses of tyranny -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC - 20090415469910,0415469929,9780415469913,9780415469920
Book Essential CHAPTERS 7-9
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The archaeology of ancient Greece - 20010521622050
Book Recommended CHAPTER 8, 13
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Autochthonous autocrats: the tyranny of the Athenian democracy
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Popular tyranny: sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece - 20030292752768,0292722311,9780292722316,9780292752764
Book Recommended CHAPTERS BY MORRIS AND OSBORNE
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The early polis as city and state -
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Death-ritual and social structure in classical antiquity - 19920521374650,0521376114
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Mass and elite in democratic Athens: rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people - c19890691094438
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Origins of democracy in ancient Greece - , , c20070520245628,9780520245624
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How the Greeks built cities - 1976, c19620393008142
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Lecture 13: Greek sanctuaries 11 items
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The archaic Greek temenos: a study of structure and function - 1967
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Greek sanctuaries: new approaches - , 19930415053846,0415125367
Book Essential See especially Kyrieleis, H. 'The Heraion at Samos' (pp. 125-153), Gerbhard, E. 'The evolution of a pan-Hellenic sanctuary: from archaeology towards history at Isthmia' (pp. 154-177)
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Athletes and oracles: the transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the eighth century B.C. - 19900521374510
Book Essential Chapters 1-4, 6
For information on the site of Isthmia, click here
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Open structures, especially theatres - ,
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Les grands sanctuaires panhelleniques -
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The ancient Olympic Games - , 19800714120022
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Greek sanctuaries - 19760236400290
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How the Greeks built cities - 1976, c19620393008142
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Religion in the ancient Greek city - , c19920521412625,0521423570
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Lecture 14: Temples and cult statues 9 items
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Greek temples and Greek worshippers. The literary and archaeological evidence - 1970
Article Essential Digitised reading
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The real and the imaginary: production and religion in the Greco-Roman world - 1979
Article Essential Digitised reading
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Greek architecture - , c19960300064918,0300064926,9780300064919,9780300064926
Book Essential 'Primitive temples' (pp. 115-122), 'The Doric order' (pp. 123-138), 'Early Doric temples' (pp. 139-159), 'The formation of the Ionic temple' (pp. 161-173), 'Early fifth century Doric temples and treasures' (pp. 174-185), 'Early sanctuaries and the Acropolis of Athens' (pp. 184-221)
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Archaic and classical Greek temples sculpture and the viewer -
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The Athenian Acropolis: history, mythology, and archaeology from the Neolithic era to the present - 19980521417864
Book Recommended Reliable overview
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Images of Athena on the Acropolis -
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Images in mind: statues in archaic and classical Greek literature and thought - 20010691044317
Book Recommended Chapter 2 'Ancient thinking about statues'
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Greek sculpture: an exploration - 19900300040725
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Lecture 15 and lecture 16: Hands-on session 3 items
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Greek painted pottery - 19970415138590,0415138604
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The red and the black: studies in Greek pottery - 19960415126606,0415126614
Book Chapters 1 and 3
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Greek pottery: an introduction - c19910719022363,0719029368
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4. THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE 49 items
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Lecture 17: Death and burial 13 items
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The Greek way of death - 19850715617672
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Greek burial customs - , 19710500400180
Book Essential Chapter 6 (Classical) and chapter 7 (Rites)
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Burial and ancient society: the rise of the Greek city-state - 1987052132680x
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Death-ritual and social structure in classical antiquity - 19920521374650,0521376114
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"Reading" Greek death: to the end of the classical period - 1995019814976X
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Vergina: the royal tombs and the ancient city - 1987
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Vases for the dead, an Attic selection: 750-400 BC -
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In death not divided: gender, family, and state on classical Athenian grave stelae - 1997
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Picturing death in classical Athens: the evidence of the white lekythoi - c20040521820162
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The Skull from Tomb II at Vergina: King Philip II of Macedon -
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Eleutherna: [Tomeas 3] ; [3]: Antipoina / Reprisals - , 19969608546842
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Sex-indicating grave-gifts in the Athenian Iron Age -
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Aspects of death in early Greek art and poetry - c19790520034058
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Lecture 18: Warfare, society and material culture 11 items
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Hoplites and heroes: Sparta's contribution to the technique of ancient warfare -
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Hoplite battle as ancient Greek warfare. When, where and why? -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization - c19950029137519
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The early hoplite phalanx; order or disarray - 2002
Article Essential Print journal; teaching collection: INST ARCH 3166
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Greek warfare: myths and realities - 20040715629670
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Warfare in ancient Greece - 19860805239596
Book Recommended Sample and note illustrated matter
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Greek aims in fortification - 19790198148240
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The Greek state at war - 1974, c1971-0520027582
Book Recommended Several volumes - for reference
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Arms and armor of the Greeks - , 19990801860733
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Greek fortifications - 19710710071493
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Lecture 19: The archaeology of economic life: trade and industry 16 items
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Trade and politics revisited: archaic Greece -
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Economy and society in Ancient Greece - , , 19810701125497
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Positivism, pots and long-distance trade -
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Greek vases in the market place -
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Pots, trade and the archaic economy - 1996
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Heavy freight in archaic Greece -
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Money, Law and Exchange: Coinage in the Greek Polis -
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Coinage in the Greek world - , 19880900652829
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Ships and seafaring in ancient times - 19940714117358
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Amphoras and the ancient wine trade - , , 1961
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Anthropology and the Greeks - 19830710200161
Book Recommended On trade
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Gift and Commodity in Archaic Greece - 1986
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Ancient shipwrecks of the Mediterranean & the Roman provinces - 1992
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Lecture 20: The Greek house 9 items
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Domestic space in the Greek city-state -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Greek architecture - , c19960300064918,0300064926,9780300064919,9780300064926
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House and society in the ancient Greek world - 19990521000254,052164349X
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Women and housing in Classical Greece: the archaeological evidence -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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How the Greeks built cities - 1976, c19620393008142
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Household and city organization at Olynthus - 20010300084951
Book Recommended Full text of book and accompanying database online. Especially chapters 2-5.
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Excavations at Olynthus: Pt.8: The Hellenic house - , , 1938
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Haus und Stadt im klassischen Griechenland - , , , , 19943422060243
Book Recommended Excellent graphics
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