The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VI

The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VI

Author: T. V. Buttrey

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 1998-01-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780924171482

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Coins, for reasons that do not always make sense, are often treated by field excavators as more reliable chronological indexes than other classes of artifacts. This always makes their discovery a welcome event, especially when they are silver or gold, which tend to survive in the ground in a more recognizable state than their bronze counterparts. The Red Figure pottery does not have quite the same chronological relevance as the coins but does on occasion contribute to the dating of archaeological contexts. Its often high quality and interesting variety of shapes has already generated commentary elsewhere in addition to what is presented here. University Museum Monograph, 97


The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VIII

The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VIII

Author: Donald White

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1934536571

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This is the climactic volume on the archaeological and architectural history from ca. 31 B.C. to A.D. 365 of the extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya. It deals with the impact of Christianity on the cult and the causes of its decline, with particular emphasis on the largest body of evidence recorded anywhere for iconoclastic damage, presumably by Christian populations, to sculpted images of worshippers and twin goddesses. The volume traces the characteristics of major Demeter sanctuaries elsewhere (e.g., Eleusis, Corinth, Pergamon, Acragas, and Selinus) and places Cyrene's sanctuary within the context of this development. The volume also presents the sanctuary's important lapidary and lead inscriptions as analyzed by Joyce Reyonlds. It is the eighth volume in the final reports series for the excavations conducted for the University of Michigan, and subsequently the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, between 1969 and 1981. University Museum Monograph, 134


The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VII

The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports, Volume VII

Author: Arcadia Kocybala

Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology

Published: 1999-01-29

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780924171451

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Corinthian pottery represents the largest percentage of all the imported archaic Greek wares found at the sanctury of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene in Libya. With its markedly broad range of types and quality, it provides insight into both the early history of the sanctuary and the nature of the export wares of this major Greek pottery center. In addition, the pottery provides some interesting new material for Corinthian vase painting in general, and adds to our knowledge of certain vase painters in particular. University Museum Monograph, 95


The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Author: A G Leventis Senior Research Fellow Inaugural A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus Paul Cartledge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-11-05

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 0199383553

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The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers twenty-one detailed studies of key sites from across the Greek world between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE--a crucial period when much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture emerged. All the studies in this seven-volume series use the same structure and methodology so that readers can easily compare a wide range of Greek communities. The series thus offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we study and think about a crucial era in ancient Greek history. Volume IV contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Cyrene, Delphi, Macedonia, Massalia, and Metapontion.


Children in the Hellenistic World

Children in the Hellenistic World

Author: Olympia Bobou

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0199683050

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Bobou offers a systematic analysis of ancient Greek statues of children from the sanctuaries, houses, and necropoleis of the Hellenistic world in order to understand their function and meaning. Looking at the literary and epigraphical evidence, she argues that these statues were important for transmitting civic values to future citizens.


The Southern Necropolis of Cyrene

The Southern Necropolis of Cyrene

Author: Luca Cherstich

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2024-05-09

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1803275502

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This book analyzes ancient tombs in Eastern Libya, from the Archaic phase to Late Roman times. Despite plundering, these ornate structures reveal funerary competition, spatial organization, and lost rituals. The book reconstructs the social history of ancient Cyreneans through their ostentatious funerary culture.


Vrbes Extinctae

Vrbes Extinctae

Author: Neil Christie

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780754665625

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The essays in this collection consider specific examples and case studies of 'lost' classical cities from across the many Roman provinces in order to help understand why some 'failed' and were subsequently abandoned. Bringing together both established and rising international scholars to share views on and findings from excavations and surveys of 'failed' towns, this volume has much to offer scholars of Roman, late antique and early medieval archaeology, urban scholars and ancient historians.


A Historical Approach to Casuistry

A Historical Approach to Casuistry

Author: Carlo Ginzburg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-12-27

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1350006777

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Casuistry, the practice of resolving moral problems by applying a logical framework, has had a much larger historical presence before and since it was given a name in the Renaissance. The contributors to this volume examine a series of case studies to explain how different cultures and religions, past and present, have wrestled with morality's exceptions and margins and the norms with which they break. For example, to what extent have the Islamic and Judaic traditions allowed smoking tobacco or gambling? How did the Spanish colonization of America generate formal justifications for what it claimed? Where were the lines of transgression around food, money-lending, and sex in Ancient Greece and Rome? How have different systems dealt with suicide? Casuistry lives at the heart of such questions, in the tension between norms and exceptions, between what seems forbidden but is not. A Historical Approach to Casuistry does not only examine this tension, but re-frames casuistry as a global phenomenon that has informed ethical and religious traditions for millennia, and that continues to influence our lives today.


Marsa Matruh I

Marsa Matruh I

Author: Donald White

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Published: 2002-12-31

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1623031230

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The excavations of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Marsa Matruh on Bates's Island, which is located on the seacoast at the north of Egypt's western desert, uncovered a small site with a metalworking workshop and nearby houses. The pottery found in the excavations indicates that this small Late Bronze Age settlement had links to several cultures: Cyprus, the Aegean, Egypt, the coast of western Asia, and the local Marmarican people. The results of the excavations are published in two volumes. This volume provides an overview of the excavations at the site, the Late Bronze Age and historical period occupations, and an introduction to the environmental morphology and history of the island.