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This utterance of an art historian is not forwarded for rhetoric reasons. It states the basic characteristic of the term found in the epicenter of the current volume: the dual character of the term "landscape" which signifies a place, as it exists, and at the same time it signifies the essence of a place, in the way that this place is represented in the form of art, literature, sound and dealing with the landscape in its tangible dimension, as a subject of scientific approach in terms of town planning, archeology, geography, geology or otherwise. Bibliography also considers...

This book provides a brief summary of research into the relations of the Achaemenid Persians with their vassal citty -Kingdoms in the island of Cyprus. The aim has been to outline the biases (ancient and modern) that have influenced scholary discussion and to propose new directions along broader lines. (από τον πρόλογο του βιβλίου)

Over the past decades, studies devoted to the prosopography and onomastic on of specific regions have become a valuable means for students of the ancient world seeking to attain a fuller knowledge of a society, its composition and development over the centuries; and their importance seems even greater in cases where these societies exhibit distinctive features, or where our knowledge of them remains only limited. This dimension was the main reason for writing a monograph devoted to the prosopography and onomasticon of Aegean Thrace; lying at the margins of the ancient Greek...

This volume presenting the first part of the Roman onomastic material from the Cyclades combines two of the most productive fields of interest of the Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, that of the Roman onomastic in the Greek-speaking East and that of the study of many aspects of the Aegean islands. Our research was supported and facilitated by several institutions and colleagues. We owe warm thanks to the XXI Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Cyclades and especially to the director, Dr...

This volume, which contains the onomastic material from Messenia and Sparta sees the light of day exactly three years after the publication of the preceding volume, which contained the Roman names from Eleia, Achaea, Corinthia, the Argolida and Arcadia. A third volumes is projected; this will contain a collection of studies, some of which will be directly concerned with the typology of Roman onomastic formulations and the multiple forms in witch they appear in the Greek word. Other studies in the volume will deal with political and social history and draw upon the material...

The twenty-six contributors to this volume discuss various aspects of the political, social an economic life of the cities during Roman rule, thereby filing a large lacuna in this important period of Greek history. They also shed light on the development of Greece's relationship with Rome and its progressive integration into the Roman System. This regional approach to the relationship with central authority confirms the wide range of intervention on the part of Rome in the various provinces and its adaptation to local conditions. This policy facilitated interaction betwe...

The Aegean is a unique region, in which several ancient civilizations developed. Despite the problems the sea posed for communications and everyday life, human settlement and organization are well attested from earliest times. Moreover, some extremely important cultures took shape in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The cultures of the Cycladic islanders, the Minoans and the Therans, were followed by the Egyptians and the Phoenicians. Strong cities and mighty hegemonies arose, such as Euboea, Athens, Macedonia, Thasos and Rhodes, while the Romans had to conquer the whole r...

The present volume offers a partial presentation of research that has been prosecuted, in one form or another, over the past decade and more. Some early, misguided ideas about the relationship between Hellenism and the Umayyads as manifest in the paintings of Qusayr Arma appeared in chapter 6 of Garth Fowden, "Empire to commonwealth: Consequences of monotheism in late antiquity (1993); while in chapter 6 of "The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran" (1999), Elisabeth Key Fowden looked at the relationship between Christianity and Islam in Umayyad al Rusafa. A...

Compared with the showy and carefully selected silver and gold coins that typically represent Greek coinage inmost book illustrations and museum displays, coins recovered in archaeological excavations can be difficult to appreciate. By their very nature, excavation coins are unselected. Almost all are made of bronze, a metal that readily corrodes when buried in the ground. Apart from any damage by corrosion, many are heavily worn or broken. Because they were often lost and have been recovered in huge numbers, they can be extremely repetitive. And yet, while this might make...

[...] Harikleia Papageorgiaou's book, "The numismatic iconography of the roman colonies in Greece: Local spirit and the expression of emperial policy", succefully and penetratingly fills a gap that existed in both the Greek and the inetrnational bibliography. During recent decades a number of important studies have been devoted to the coinage of the Greek cities after conquest. What was lacking was an investigation specifically of the numismatic iconography of the Roman colonies that were founded in Greece, comparable to that devoted to the cities of Asia Minor by professo...

Sommaire - Miltiade B. Hatzopoulos, "Retour a la vallee du Strymon" - Louisa D. Loukopoulou, Selene Psoma, "Maroneia and Stryme Revisited: Problems of Historical Topography". - Michael Zahrnt "Gab es in Thrkien zwei Stadte names Mesambria? Uberlegungen zur samothrakischen". - Selene Psoma, "An Honorary Decree from Thasos (IG XII 8, 267) and the Samothracian Peraia During the Hellenistic Period" - Louisa D. Loukopoulou, "Les inscriptions des tresors nord-balkaniques"

The project on Weight and Value deals mainly with metrology and trade in the Bronze Age in relation to societies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East whose economies were at the time in a pre-coinage stage. Although the main thrust of the project was and is the metrology and economy in the Aegean era, it employs documentation from Egypt and the Near East, necessary to the understanding of the main theme. (από τον πρόλογο του βιβλίου)

This second volume by the same author, on the subject of weight and value in pre-coinage societies1, consists of five parts. Each explores an independent subject, although all five focus on those who owned and used measuring tools in Bronze Age societies in the Aegean and the Orient. Part I presents the framework of the discussion: it deals with the material and symbolic significance of the balance and with the circulation of goods that required measurement and accounting. Part II presents a case study from the Aegean, the settlement of Akrotiri on the island of Thera. Bala...

Τα διάσπαρτα ερείπια στο λόφο "Πελίτι" ή "Καστρί" της Αγροσυκιάς (σήμερα δημοτικού διαμερίσματος του Δήμου Πέλλας) που προκαλούσαν το ενδιαφέρον, ζωντάνευαν στη φαντασία των κατοίκων της περιοχής και δημιουργούσαν θρύλους και παραδόσεις για κρυμμένους θησαυρούς της εποχής του Μ. Αλεξάνδρου, ήταν η αιτία που πολλοί θησαυροθήρες, αναζητώντας την τύχη τους, άνοιξαν λάκκους σε πολλά σημεία του οικισμού και κατέστρεψαν τμήματα τοίχων και τμήμα του πύργου Α στη νότια πλευρά του παλαιοχριστιανικού τείχους. Με τη δυναμική παρέμβαση της ΙΖ' ΕΠΚΑ Έδεσσας από το 1984 και μετά αποσοβήθ...

Η Βέροια είναι μια χαμένη πολιτεία. Η μεγάλη της τιμή, ότι είναι δηλαδή ένα από τα συνεχώς κατοικούμενα αστικά κέντρα της Μακεδονίας -και μάλιστα με απαράλλακτο το όνομά της- είναι και η μεγάλη της ατυχία. Οι διαδεχόμενες η μία την άλλη γενεές βύθισαν την αρχαία πόλη κάτω από νεώτερα κτίσματα, έως ότου επί των ημερών μας ωκεανοί τσιμέντου και ασφάλτου ολοκλήρωσαν τον αφανισμό της. Εν τούτοις η αρχαία Βέροια κάπου εξακολουθεί να υφίσταται και αναδύεται κατά καιρούς συμπτωματικά, όταν οι σιαγόνες των εκσκαφέων ανατρέπουν πλάκες αρχαίου οδοστρώματος, συνθλίβουν κερκίδες αρχαίο...