Old lands : a chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese / Christopher Witmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witmore, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--Description and travel.

Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula).

Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--Antiquities.

Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--Historical geography.

Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--Civilization.

Landscape archaeology--Greece--Peloponnesus (Peninsula).

Landscape archaeology.

Greece--Peloponnesus (Peninsula).

Antiquities.

Civilization.

Historical geography.

Travel.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 564 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. Following waters in search of rest through the lens of Lucretian poetics, Witmore reconstitutes an untimely mode of ambulatory writing, chorography, mindful of the challenges we all face in these precarious times. Turning on pressing concerns that arise out of object-oriented encounters, Old Lands ponders the disappearance of an agrarian world rooted in the Neolithic, the transition to urban-styles of living, changes in communication, movement, and metabolism, while opening fresh perspectives on long-term inhabitation, changing mobilities, and appropriation through pollution. Carefully composed with those objects encountered along its varied paths, this book offers an original and wonderous account of a region in twenty-seven segments, and fulfills a longstanding ambition within archaeology to generate a polychronic narrative that stands as a complement and alternative to diachronic history. Old Lands will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and scholars of the Eastern Peloponnese. Those interested in the long-term changes in society, technology and culture across time in this region will find this book captivating"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The measure of the Morea?

Lines in stone: Roads, canals, walls, faults, and marine terraces

Ancient Corinth: Descent into memory, ascent into oblivion

Acrocorinth: From gate to summit

Along the A7 (Moréas), by car

Kleonai to Nemea

Nemea: A transect

An erstwhile aqueduct: Lucretian flow

To Mykenes station, by train

About Mycenae, history and archaeology

A path to the Heraion

Through groves of citrus to Argos

Argos, a democratic polis and Plutarch's Pyrrhus, a synkrisis (comparison)

Modern spectacle through an ancient theatre

Argos to Anapli on the hoof, with a stop at Tiryns

A stroll through Nafplion

The road to Epidaurus: Frazer and Pausanias

Paleolithic to Bronze Age amid Venetian: A museum

To Asine: Legal objects

To Vivari, by boat

Into the Bedheni Valley

Through the Southern Argolid

Ermioni/Hermion/Kastri: A topology

Looking southwest, to what has become of an ancient oikos

Across the Adheres, iterations

Troizen, verdant and in ruin

To Methana

Into the Saronic Gulf

On chorography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Witmore, Christopher. Old lands

ISBN:

9780815363439

0815363435

9780815363446

0815363443

OCLC:

1129787398