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The Archaeology of Greece and Rome: Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass

John Bintliff and N. Keith Rutter

Abstract

Over his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Edinburgh University (1961-1976), Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge (1976-2001) and currently Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass has influenced and been associated with a long series of eminent classical archaeologists, historians and linguists .In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archai ... More

Keywords: Anthony Snodgrass, Greek, Rome, Archaeology

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9781474417099
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2018 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417099.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

John Bintliff, editor
University of Edinburgh

N. Keith Rutter, editor
University of Edinburgh

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Frontispiece

Preface

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Section I Prehistory

1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That

Oliver Dickinson

2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-εύς‎

Torsten Meissner

3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early Polis: A Reappraisal

Vladimir Stissi

Section II Around Homer

4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1)

Michael Squire and Jaś Elsner

5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See?

Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon

6 Homer and the Sculptors

Nigel Spivey

Section III The Archaic and Classical Greek World

7 Potters, Hippeis and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC

Bruno d’Agostino and Maria Grazia Palmieri Translated by Federico Poole with an Appendix by A. C. Cassio

8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note

François de Polignac

9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach

Sylvian Fachard

10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic Dichterweihe?

José M. González

11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch

Tonio Hölscher

12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily

Keith Rutter

Section IV The Greeks and their Neighbours

13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine)

Ernst Künzl

14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great

Gregory Nagy

Section V The Roman and Much Wider World

15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View

Henry Hurst

16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome

Alain Schnapp

17 Context Matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Paulli in Rome

Rolf Michael Schneider

Section VI The Scholar in the University and in the Field

18 Anthony in Edinburgh

Keith Rutter

19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation

Paul Cartledge

20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece

John Bintliff

End Matter

Index