- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That
- 2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-<span xml:lang="ell">εύς</span>
- 3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early <i>Polis</i>: A Reappraisal
- 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (<i>Imagines</i> I.1)
- 5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See?
- 6 Homer and the Sculptors
- 7 Potters, <i>Hippeis</i> and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC
- 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- 10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic <i>Dichterweihe</i>?
- 11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch
- 12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily
- 13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine)
- 14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great
- 15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View
- 16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome
- 17 Context Matters: Pliny’s <i>Phryges</i> and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- 18 Anthony in Edinburgh
- 19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation
- 20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece
- Index
Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- Chapter:
- (p.192) 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- Source:
- The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
- Author(s):
Sylvian Fachard
, John Bintliff, Keith Rutter- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The territoriality of Attic demes has been a matter of dispute, but the evidence for the existence of territorial limits now seems overwhelming – regardless of how concretely they were marked on the ground. Some of the deme limits, perhaps contested ones, were fixed precisely by rupestral horoi. The majority of them, however – like most borders separating city-states – consisted of sight lines linking natural features such as summits, ridges and gullies. Locating more deme limits in the future is important for the progress of Attic topography. Deme boundaries are also valuable for assessing the potential agricultural catchment of demes, and for studying the rural economies of Attica at the level of individual demes and larger regions.
Keywords: Attic demes, horoi, boundary
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That
- 2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-<span xml:lang="ell">εύς</span>
- 3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early <i>Polis</i>: A Reappraisal
- 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (<i>Imagines</i> I.1)
- 5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See?
- 6 Homer and the Sculptors
- 7 Potters, <i>Hippeis</i> and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC
- 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- 10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic <i>Dichterweihe</i>?
- 11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch
- 12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily
- 13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine)
- 14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great
- 15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View
- 16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome
- 17 Context Matters: Pliny’s <i>Phryges</i> and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- 18 Anthony in Edinburgh
- 19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation
- 20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece
- Index
