Cities called Athens : studies honoring John McK. Camp II / presented by his students and edited by Kevin F. Daly and Lee Ann Riccardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daly, Kevin F., editor.

Riccardi, Lee Ann, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Greek.

Athens (Greece)--Antiquities.

Athens (Greece).

Athens (Greece)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. </span></span>

Contents:

Family meals: banquet imagery on classical Athenian funerary reliefs / by Wendy E. Closterman

On when and where to find Athenian forts / by Kevin F. Daly

Securing the sacred: the accessibility and control of Attic sanctuaries / by Laura Gawlinski

The eagle of Zeus in Greek art and literature / by Seán Hemingway

Solon's property classes on the Athenian acropolis? : a reconsideration of IG 13.831 and Ath. pol. 7.4 / by Catherine M. Keesling

The architecture of the Athenian Acropolis before Perikles : the life and death of the small limestone buildings / by Nancy L. Klein

"To market, to market": pottery, the individual and trade in Athens / by Elizabeth M. Langridge-Noti

The transport amphoras at Koroni : contribution to the historical narrative and economic history of the early Hellenistic Aegean / by Mark L. Lawall

Drinking cups and the symposium at Athens in the archaic and classical periods / by Kathleen M. Lynch

Three late medieval kilns from the Athenian agora / by Camilla Mackay

"There will be blood ..." : the cult of Artemis Tauropolos at Halai Araphenides / by Jeremy McInerney

Homage & abuse : three portraits of Roman women from the Athenian agora / by Lee Ann Riccardi

Polis inscriptions and jurors in fourth-century Athens / by M. B. Richardson

Sophokles' Philoktetes : the cult of Herakles dramatized / by Christina A. Salowey.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-961-X

1-61148-619-X

1-61148-618-1

OCLC:

898769303