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Art and the Greek city state : an interpretive archaeology

By Michael Shanks

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521561175, 9780521561174
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8764775 bytes)
Series
New studies in archaeology
Pages
xv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm\252
Time added
2015-04-28 16:00:00

Description

Michael Shanks has written a challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC. He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections between new urban environments, foreign trade, warfare, and the ideology of male sovereignty. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, which draws on an anthropologically informed archaeology, ancient history, art history, material culture studies and structural approaches to the classics, his book raises large questions about the links between design and manufacture, political and social structure, and culture and ideology in the ancient Greek world. �Read more...

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