επιλεκτική παρουσίαση των εκδόσεων της Βρετανικής Σχολής Αθηνών, British School at Athens, (αγγλικά)

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Published by: British School at Athens
Editors: Michael Llewellyn Smith, Eleni Calligas, Paschalis Kitromilides

The British School at Athens is renowned for its discoveries in Bronze Age and Classical archaeology. This book reveals for the first time that in parallel with this story of archaeology and the classics, another theme runs persistently through the history of the School from its foundation in 1886. This is the contribution of British scholars to the study of Byzantine and modern Greek culture, art and architecture, anthropology, geography, folklore, history and language. Richly illustrated with material from the School’s photographic archive, the book sets out the achievements of scholars such as R. M. Dawkins, F. W. Hasluck and A. J. B. Wace. Others whose achievements are assessed include the great Scottish historian George Finlay and the topographer Colonel Leake. The book explores also the rich holdings in Byzantine church art held in the School’s Byzantine Research Fund Archive. Contributors include Metropolitan Kallistos (on Mount Athos), distinguished professors from British universities, and scholars from the National Hellenic Research Foundation. The School’s mission was and is to further the study of Greece in all its aspects. This book shows how scholars took advantage of this flexibility. Contributions explore the connection between the School’s different disciplines, in particular between archaeology and anthropology. The nature of the School community itself is examined, as is the School’s involvement in the First World War. The impact on scholars raised in the classical tradition of Greece’s landscape and living culture is a pervasive theme. xxv + 254, figs. 90, maps, 6, tables 1, colour plates 16

ISBN: 9780904887600

SPARTA AND LACONIA FROM PREHISTORY TO PRE-MODERN
Proceedings of the Conference held in Sparta, organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Nottingham, the E′ Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the 5th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities 17–20 March 2005

Published by: British School at Athens

This conference celebrated 100 years since the beginning of work in Laconia by the British School at Athens. It aimed to carry forward from that original work a broad spirit of enquiry — the research of those early scholars ranged over every aspect of the archaeology, epigraphy, history, architecture and art history of the region. What has changed over the century since is the even greater internationalisation of the scholarly enterprise, and the great contribution made today by the members of the Greek Archaeological Service. Their energetic contribution to the archaeology of the region is underlined by the number of papers in this volume written them. The papers published here have been arranged chronologically, and they cover an immense span from the Palaeolithic to recent times. But there are other disciplinary and thematic connections, which form junctures across the chronological order: material culture, religion and belief, cultural identity, epigraphy, topography, architectural studies, iconography, historiography, anthropology, the economy and the history of Laconia. The very variety of these themes is a tribute to the broad tradition of enquiry which those pioneering scholars of the early 20th century — British, Greek and other nationalities — brought to the study of Sparta and Laconia. As Paul Cartledge stresses in his introduction to the volume, the different images of Sparta have deeply influenced the European tradition. Sparta lives in the mind’s eye and is constantly redrawn in the light of new discoveries and new insights. The papers presented here provide both.

ISBN: 9780904887617

BUILDING COMMUNITIES
Proceedings of a Conference held at Cardiff University 17–21 April 2001 House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond

Published by: British School at Athens
Studies No. 15
Editors: Ruth Westgate, Nicholas Fisher, James Whitley

This volume explores a range of approaches to the built environment of the ancient Mediterranean world, with two main aims: first, to relate archaeological evidence to the wider cultural and historical context, and second, to bridge the conventional divide between prehistoric and Classical archaeology. It contains 40 papers by an international array of scholars, ranging from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity, and geographically from the Aegean to Italy, North Africa, Egypt and the Black Sea. Major themes include: • the theory and methodology of analysing and interpreting built space • the relationship of the built environment to social and political structures and the formation of states • the development of civic and religious space • the identification of households in the archaeological record • the formation and interpretation of domestic assemblages • problems in the identification of functional areas within the house • changing conceptions of public and private • space and gender • the function and significance of decoration in houses and palaces • the uses of ethnoarchaeology and virtual reality for understanding architectural remains • the effects of acculturation in the domestic sphere • the archaeology of the domestic economy • the problems of combining literary and archaeological evidence. The papers offer many new interpretations of a wide range of material and, taken together, give an exciting overview of the latest scholarship and ideas in this rich and developing field of study. The conference formed part of the British Academy / AHRB-funded project ‘Strategies, Structures and Ideologies of the Built Environment’.

ISBN: 9780904887563

KNOSSOS POTTERY HANDBOOK: NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE (MINOAN)

Published by: British School at Athens
Studies No. 14
Editor: Nicoletta Momigliano

This volume presents the most up-to-date synthesis of the Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery sequence of Knossos, one of the most significant archaeological sites in Mediterranean and European prehistory. The Knossos pottery sequence has formed the backbone of Aegean prehistoric chronology for over a century, and this is the first publication since Sir Arthur Evans’s Palace of Minos that provides — within one cover — a complete overview of the main ceramic developments, which have occurred at this key site during more than five millennia (ca. 6500–1100 BC). The volume is written by a small international team of archaeologists with extensive and first-hand knowledge of Knossian ceramics, whose work, over the years, has thoroughly questioned and modified previous dating of important ceramic assemblages and traditional definitions of ceramic phases. Their chapters present not only new updates of their previous works, but also a thorough re-examination of the stratigraphic and stylistic evidence currently available, and include previously unpublished material. The volume is provided with over one hundred black-and-white illustrations, and is accompanied by a CD with colour images of selected Knossian ceramics. It will be an indispensable work of reference for archaeologists working in the prehistoric Aegean as well as other Mediterranean and European regions. Volume contents: Introduction (Nicoletta Momigliano); Chapter 1: Neolithic (Peter Tomkins); Chapter 2: Early Prepalatial (David E. Wilson); Chapter 3: Late Prepalatial (Nicoletta Momigliano); Chapter 4: Protopalatial (J. Alexander MacGillivray); Chapter 5: Neopalatial (Eleni Hatzaki); Chapter 6: Final Palatial and Postpalatial (Eleni Hatzaki).

AEGEAN WALL PAINTING: A TRIBUTE TO MARK CAMERON

Published by: British School at Athens
Studies No. 13
Editor: Lyvia Morgan

Until his premature death in 1984 at the age of 45, Mark Cameron made a unique contribution to the study of Minoan wall painting; his published articles continue to inspire a new generation of scholars. In recent years many important discoveries have been made, which have enhanced our understanding of Aegean wall painting and have expanded our perception of the Aegean and its relations with the neighboring cultures during the second millennium BC. This volume, dedicated to the memory of Mark Cameron, now brings together leading scholars in a presentation of some of the latest ideas in the field of Aegean painting. Contributors include: M. Bietak, A. Chapin, S. Hood, S. Immerwahr, R. Jones, N. Marinatos, L. Morgan, M. Shaw, C. Palyvou, E. Photos-Jones, I. Tzachili and P. Warren.

ISBN: 0904887499