A Catalogue of Greek Vases in the Collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art
A Catalogue of Greek Vases in the Collection of the University of Melbourne at the Ian Potter Museum of Art

Author: Peter Connor

Publisher: Macmillan Education AU

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781876832070

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The catalogue of the University of Melbourne's superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers. This richly illustrated book is a collectors' item, designed and produced to library specifications. It offers the complete scholarly apparatus for study of the vase collection, one of the finest in the country and comparable with others around the world. It will prove valuable as a reference text wherever classics, archaeology or art are studied. The book is a product of one of the most outstanding Classical Studies departments in Australia and is destined for libraries throughout the world. It is the first volume in a series planned to feature various aspects of the University's wider collection. Each vase, fully described and documented, appears in rich colour and detail. Styles and periods are introduced by contextualising photographs presented as dramatic double-page spreads. No effort has been spared to publish this collection as beautifully as these unique artifacts deserve.

Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens
Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens

Author: Owen Rees

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1350188654

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This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died. As a conscript, a man regularly called upon by his city-state to serve in the battle lines and perform his citizen duty, the most common military experience of the hoplite was one of transition – he was departing to or returning from war on a regular basis, especially during extended periods of conflict. Scholarship has focused primarily on the experience of the hoplite after his return, with a special emphasis on his susceptibility to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but the moments of transition themselves have yet to be explored in detail. Taking each in turn, Owen Rees examines the transitions from two sides: from within the domestic environment as a member of an oikos, and from within the military environment as a member of the army. This analysis presents a new template for each and effectively maps the experience of the hoplite as he moves between his domestic and military duties. This allows us to reconstruct the effects of war more fully and to identify moments with the potential for a traumatic impact on the individual.

Greek Vases
Greek Vases

Author: Peter Connor

Publisher: Macmillan Education AU

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781876832087

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The catalogue of the University of Melbourne's superb collection of Greek vases is now published as a sumptuous, fully colour-illustrated, cloth-covered volume which will suit the needs of students, researchers and interested readers. This richly-illustrated book is a collector's item, designed and produced to library specifications. It offers the complete scholarly apparatus for study of the vase collection, one of the finest in the country. It will prove valuable as a reference text wherever classics, archaeology or art are studied. The book is a product of one of the most outstanding Classical Studies departments in Australia and is destined for libraries throughout the world. It is the first volume in a series planned to feature various aspects of the University's wider collection. Each vase, fully described and documented, appears in rich colour and detail. Styles and periods are introduced by contextualising photographs presented as dramatic double-page spreads. No effort has been spared to publish this collection as beautifully as these unique artefacts deserve.

Babesch
Babesch

Author: Vereeniging Antieke Beschaving (Netherlands)

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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Attika
Attika

Author: Hans Lohmann

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9783447062237

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Attika, die ostlichste Landschaft Mittelgriechenlands, war zusammen mit ihrem Vorort Athen neben Sparta nicht nur die flachengrosste hellenische Polis, sondern mit rund 300 000 Einwohnern auch die bevolkerungsreichste. Als Wiege der abendlandischen Kultur steht Athen auch zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts im Brennpunkt des allgemeinen wie des wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Attika ist fur Historiker und Archaologen vor allem deshalb eine "zentrale" Landschaft des Mittelmeerraumes, weil sich in ihr materielle Reste, epigraphische Quellen und historisch-literarische Uberlieferung verdichten wie in keiner anderen Region Griechenlands. Da das klassische Zeitalter Athens unbestreitbar einen der grossen Hohepunkte abendlandischer Kulturgeschichte darstellt, ist alles, was diese Epoche betrifft, von grosstem kulturwissenschaftlichen Interesse. Auf eine Phase hochster Blute im 5. und 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. folgte ein abrupter Niedergang und fuhrte in weiten Bereichen zu einer Fossilisierung der Kulturlandschaft, die ideale Voraussetzungen bot, Einblick in die Lebensverhaltnisse, die Siedlungsformen und Wirtschaftsweisen der Bewohner des antiken Attika zu nehmen. Zugleich ist Attika aber heute auch die am starksten zerstorte antike Kulturlandschaft Griechenlands. Unzahlige Fundstatten aus allen Epochen sind unbeachtet von Wissenschaft und Offentlichkeit dem unkontrollierten Bauboom der letzten dreissig Jahre zum Opfer gefallen. Der von Hans Lohmann und Torsten Mattern herausgegebene Band prasentiert neue Forschungen zu Athen und Attika und gibt Impulse fur kunftige Forschungen.

Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World
Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World

Author: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-07

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1135014442

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This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks of various forms – which are central to explanations of cultural contact and change. Focusing on the materiality of objects and on the way in which materials are used adds a multidimensional quality to networks. The properties, functions, and styles of different materials are intrinsically linked to the way in which knowledge flows and technologies are transmitted. Transmission of technologies from one craft to another is one of the main drivers of innovation, whilst sharing knowledge is enabled and limited by the extent of associated social networks in place. Archaeological research has often been limited to studying objects made of one particular material in depth, be it lithic materials, ceramics, textiles, glass, metal, wood or others. The knowledge flow and transfer between crafts that deal with different materials have often been overlooked. This book takes a fresh approach to the reconstruction of knowledge networks by integrating two or more craft traditions in each of its chapters. The authors, well-known experts and early career researchers, provide concise case studies that cover a wide range of materials. The scope of the book extends from networks of craft traditions to implications for society in a wider sense: materials, objects, and the technologies used to make and distribute them are interwoven with social meaning. People make objects, but objects make people – the materiality of objects shapes our understanding of the world and our place within it. In this book, objects are treated as clues to social networks of different sorts that can be contrasted and compared, both spatially and diachronically.

Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-painting
Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-painting

Author: Richard T. Neer

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780521791113

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In this study of Athenian vases of the late Archaic period, Neer tracks the design and imagery of the symposium, with its elaborate riddles and poems and the development of "naturalistic" techniques, such as foreshortening and shading. He also traces the birth of self-portraiture at the end of the sixth century and the treatment of overtly political subject-matter in the early democracy. The author thus reexamines basic ideas about Greek art and history, with particular regard to naturalism, realism, allegory, and the relation of ceramics to social life. Neer further demonstrates how formal ambiguity provided vase painters and their audiences with a means of creating new conceptions of civic identity.