Classical World

Ancient Harbours of the Piraeus

The Zea Shipsheds & Slipways 15.1 + 15.2
Format: Hardback
Pages: 488
ISBN: 9788771240078
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2012
Series: Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens
Description:
Volume 15.1: Architecture and Topography.
Kalydon in Aitolia I & II -- 2-Volume Set Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 640
ISBN: 9788772886282
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2012
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Volume 1: Field Work & Studies. Volume 2: Catalogues.
Pottery in the Archaeological Record Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9788779345874
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2012
Description:
Archaeologist are increasingly focusing on the transformation of artefacts from their use in the past to theri appearance in the archaeological record, trying to identiy the natural and cultural processes that created the archaeological record we study today. In Classical Archaeology, attention to these processes received an impetus by J. Theodore Peña's 2007 monograph, Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record, which considered how ceramic vessels were made, used and stayed in use serving various secondary purposes, before finally being discarded.
Trireme Olympias Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842174340
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2012
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 83 b/w illus
Description:
This volume represents the final publication of the Olympias project, which saw the building of a full-scale reconstruction of a 170-oared Athenian trireme of the 4th century BC and its operation in five series of sea-trials in the Aegean Sea. The first three sea-trials in 1987, 1988 and 1990 have already been published in separate volumes (the last two by Oxbow) and this completes the series with reports of the 1992 and 1994 trials. The 1992 report by Paul Lipke of Trireme Trust USA, which collaborated with the Trireme Trust in the operation of the ship, offers an alternative view of the project as a whole from that presented in previous reports.
Acropolis Restored Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780861591879
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2011
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 160 colour illustrations
Description:
The individual contributors to these papers tell the story of the dedicated and detailed efforts to understand the work of previous generations on the Acropolis and then to restore the buildings as nearly as possible to their original architectural state. The result is a story of engagement with the extraordinary problems associated with these world heritage monuments and the challenges to preserve and present them for future generations. This book represents a milestone in the history of the collaboration and friendship between the Acropolis Restoration Service and the British Museum.
Roman Imperial Armour Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781842174357
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 148 b/w & colour illus, 27 tables
Description:
The Roman Empire depended on the power of its armies to defend and extend the imperial borders, enabling it to dominate much of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Success was, in large part, founded on well-trained, well-disciplined soldiers who were equipped with the most advanced arms and armour available at that time. This is the story of the production of that armour.
RRP: £25.00
Settlement, Ceremony and Industry on Mousehold Heath Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 170
ISBN: 9780956305442
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2011
Imprint: Pre-Construct Archaeology
Illustrations: 73 figures in b/w and colour
Description:
This publication presents the results of archaeological investigations by Pre-Construct Archaeology at Laurel Farm to the south-east of Norfolk. An extraordinarily long and complex history of occupation and exploitation was revealed, dating back to the Lower Palaeolithic. The site was also visited in the Upper Palaeolithic by hunter-gatherer communities who used the shelter provided by the roots of an upturned tree to knap flint into blades and tools.
RRP: £15.00
Yarnton Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 655
ISBN: 9781905905218
Pub Date: 17 Nov 2011
Series: Oxford Archaeology Monograph
Description:
The Yarnton landscape, extending from the floodplain of the Thames up onto the higher Second Gravel Terrace, has witnessed a long history of topographic and vegetational change linked to human activity. Settlements on the edge of the Second Gravel Terrace were occupied throughout the Iron Age and Roman periods. Associated with the middle Iron Age settlement was a small cemetery of some 35 crouched inhumation burials.
Bringing Carthage Home Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781842179925
Pub Date: 04 Oct 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: UBC Studies in the Ancient World
Illustrations: 137 b/w & 9 colour illus
Description:
Adorning the north-west staircase in the British Museum is a group of brightly coloured figured mosaic pavements. Most were excavated for the Museum between 1856 and 1859 at Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, by a dilettante called Nathan Davis; the work was funded by the Foreign Office of the British Government. This book recounts for the first time the extraordinary story behind this pioneering enterprise and the political and cultural rivalry between representatives of the colonial powers as they asserted their rights to explore the buried remains of one of the ancient world's greatest cities.
Gems of heaven' Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780861591770
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2011
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 600 colour illus integrated throughout the volume, with maps and tables
Description:
This is the companion volume to one devoted to recent research on Byzantine jewellery published in 2010 and forms part of a series organised under the auspices of the British Museum Byzantine Seminar Series. The conference brought together leading scholars from Europe, the USA and the Middle East to discuss Late Antique gems and cameos. This is the first time that so many diverse papers, interdisciplinary in nature, have been assembled in a single volume and includes scientific papers addressing issues such as typology and sourcing of gemstones.
Butrint 3 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 374
ISBN: 9781842179802
Pub Date: 08 Sep 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Butrint Archaeological Monographs
Illustrations: c.425 b/w and 60 col illus
Description:
This engaging and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of a large urban sector, the so-called Triconch Palace, of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. In so doing it adds to the new paradigm for the development of Roman towns in the Mediterranean. The book traces the changing nature of this rich and varied area - from 2nd-century Roman townhouses, to a 4th-century elite domus, to a Mid Byzantine trading area to late medieval allotments - and reveals the rhythms of Butrint and its Mediterranean connections.
Roman London and the Walbrook stream crossing Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 592
ISBN: 9781907586040
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2011
Series: MoLAS Monograph
Description:
The site of 1 Poultry, excavated in the 1990s, is located near the Bank of England in the heart of the City of London. It lay immediately west of the point where the main east-west road through Roman London bridged the Walbrook stream and proved to be one of the most significant archaeological sites ever excavated in the City, with an unparalleled sequence of buildings, roads and open spaces. A timber drain of AD 47 beneath the main road is the earliest, securely dated structure yet known from Londinium and a pottery shop destroyed in the Boudican revolt gives a snapshot of life in AD 60/61.
Ratio et res ipsa Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780956838117
Pub Date: 01 Jul 2011
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Since 1966, when James Diggle was elected to his Fellowship at Queen's College, Cambridge, his teaching and scholarly example have inspired many of his pupils to embark on their own academic careers. In this volume fourteen former pupils have contributed essays to mark his retirement. The contributions cover many of the diverse disciplines of Classics: Greek literature, Greek language, Latin literature, Textual Criticism, Greek and Roman Culture and the History of Scholarship.
RRP: £45.00
Unclassical Traditions Volume 2 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780956838100
Pub Date: 01 Jun 2011
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Description:
Unclassical Traditions. Volume II: Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity is the second of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with the classical past. Rather than concentrating on developments at the centre of empire (the focus of a previous volume, Unclassical Traditions I ), the aim here is to present a set of views from the margins: social, political, religious, literary, geographical and linguistic.
RRP: £45.00
Sailing to Classical Greece Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781842174227
Pub Date: 17 May 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture), which reflect the interests of the honorand. New, previously unpublished material from Messenia, Athens and elsewhere is here presented for the first time.
RRP: £32.00
EAA 138: Farm and Forge Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 214
ISBN: 9780955654633
Pub Date: 15 May 2011
Series: East Anglian Archaeology Monograph
Illustrations: 120 illus
Description:
Between 1998 and 2001, Albion Archaeology (formerly Bedfordshire County Archaeology Service) carried out a series of archaeological investigations in advance of development at Marsh Leys on the outskirts of Bedford. Although the discovery of flint artefacts suggested limited earlier prehistoric activity, the first firm evidence for sustained use of the site was a ditched enclosure, which pre-dated the late Iron Age. The vast majority of the archaeological evidence was associated with two Romano-British farm sites c.