Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto write by Joseph Coleman Carter. This book was released on 2006. Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores one of the earliest and most comprehensive archeological explorations of rural Greece
The Chora of Metaponto 7
The Chora of Metaponto 7 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chora of Metaponto 7 write by Joseph Coleman Carter. This book was released on 2018-01-10. The Chora of Metaponto 7 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The seventh volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek sanctuary at Pantanello. The site is the first Greek rural sanctuary in southern Italy that has been fully excavated and exhaustively documented. Its evidence—a massive array of distinctive structural remains and 30,000-plus artifacts and ecofacts—offers unparalleled insights into the development of extra-urban cults in Magna Graecia from the seventh to the fourth centuries BC and the initiation rites that took place within the cults. Of particular interest are the analyses of the well-preserved botanical and faunal material, which present the fullest record yet of Greek rural sacrificial offerings, crops, and the natural environment of southern Italy and the Greek world. Excavations from 1974 to 2008 revealed three major phases of the sanctuary, ranging from the Archaic to Early Hellenistic periods. The structures include a natural spring as the earliest locus of the cult, an artificial stream (collecting basin) for the spring's outflow, Archaic and fourth-century BC structures for ritual dining and other cult activities, tantalizing evidence of a Late Archaic Doric temple atop the hill, and a farmhouse and tile factory that postdate the sanctuary's destruction. The extensive catalogs of material and special studies provide an invaluable opportunity to study the development of Greek material culture between the seventh and third centuries BC, with particular emphasis on votive pottery and figurative terracotta plaques.
Exploring Rural Greece
Exploring Rural Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Rural Greece write by Pamela Westland. This book was released on 1989. Exploring Rural Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A touring guide to the Greek countryside intended for the visitor to Greece who wants to get away from the usual tourist routes and discover the land that poets and writers have eulogized for centuries.
Greek Colonisation
Greek Colonisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Colonisation write by G.R. Tsetskhladze. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Greek Colonisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first volume of a 2-volume handbook on ancient Greek colonisation, dedicated to the late Prof. A.J. Graham, gives a lengthy introduction to the problem, including methodological and theoretical issues. The chapters cover Mycenaean expansion, Phoenician and Phocaean colonisation, Greeks in the western Mediterranean, Syria, Egypt and southern Anatolia, etc. The volume is richly illustrated.
The Chora of Metaponto 5
The Chora of Metaponto 5 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chora of Metaponto 5 write by Elisa Lanza Catti. This book was released on 2014-08-15. The Chora of Metaponto 5 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology’s series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the fourth-century BC farmhouse known as Fattoria Fabrizio, located in the heart of the surveyed chora in the Venella valley (at Ponte Fabrizio). This simple structure richly illustrates the life of fourth-century BC Metapontine farmers of modest means. Thorough interpretations of the farmhouse structure in its wider historical and socioeconomic contexts are accompanied by comprehensive analyses of the archaeological finds. Among them is detailed evidence for the family cult, a rare archaeological contribution to the study of Greek religion in Magna Grecia. The entire range of local Greek ceramics has been studied, along with a limited number of imports. Together they reveal networks within the chora and trade beyond it, involving indigenous peoples of southern Italy, mainland Greeks, and the wider Mediterranean world. Along with the studies of traditional archaeological finds, archaeobotanical analyses have illuminated the rural economy of the farmhouse and the environment of the adjacent chora. Abundant Archaic pottery also documents an important occupation, during the first great flowering of the chora in the sixth century BC. This study provides an ideal complement to the four volumes of The Chora of Metaponto 3: Archaeological Field Survey—Bradano to Basento and an eloquent example of hundreds of farmhouses of this date identified throughout the chora by their surface remains alone.
