Koine: Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on ancient Mediterranean studies. Through broadly conceived themes, the four individual sections of this volume (I. A View of Classical Art: Iconography in Context; II. Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Cultural Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea; III. Coins as Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily; and IV. Discovery and Discourse, Archaeology and Interpretation) are an attempt to capture the many and varied trajectories of thought that have marked his career and serve as testimony to the significance of his research. The twenty-four papers (plus four introductory essays to the individual sections, biographical sketch and main introduction) contain recent research on subjects ranging from the Kleophrades Painter to the Black Sea, Sicilian Coinage and archaeology in modern Rome. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements About the Editors List of Contributors The Making of Archaeology at Brown: A Tribute Curriculum vitae of R. Ross Holloway Excavating the Labyrinth: An Archaeology of a Career Section I: A View Of Classical Art: Iconography i n Context Introduction Chapter 1: Early Greek Architectural Decoration in Function Chapter 2: Ambidexterity in the Tarquinia Krater of the Kleophrades Painter Chapter 3: Orestes in Athens Chapter 4: The Three-Figured Reliefs: Copies or Neoattic Creations? Chapter 5: Some Observations on the Flavian Victory Monuments of Rome Chapter 6: Imperial Triumph and Apotheosis: The Arch of Titus in Rome Chapter 7: Heaven’s Exarchs: Observations on Early Byzantine Archangels Section II: Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Cultural Entanglements Across the Connecting Sea Introduction Chapter 8: The Corrupting Sea and the Hospitable Sea: Some Early Thoughts Toward a Regional History of the Black Sea Chapter 9: Imports, Imitations, and Immigrants: A Note on Pithekoussai Chapter 10: Between East and West: A New Reconstruction of the Decorated Architrave Frieze of the Athena Temple at Assos and the Regional Tradition of Unconventional Architectural Decoration in East Greece Chapter 11: An Etruscan Demon in Pompeii Chapter 12: Refl ections on an Interesting Historical Parallel: The Sikels of Fifth-Century BC Sicily and the Cherokee in Nineteenth-Century North America Chapter 13: The Greek House in Sicily: Influence and Innovation in the Hellenistic Period Section III: Coins as Culture: Art and Coinage from Sicily Introduction Chapter 14: Dating the Period of the “Signing Artists” of Sicilian Coinage Chapter 15: New Coin Types in Late Fifth-Century Sicily Chapter 16: Ancient Sicilian Coins in a Brazilian Private Collection Section IV: Discovery and Discourse: Archaeology and Interpretation Introduction Chapter 17: Infinite Attention to Detail: A Slice of Sicily in the Third and Second Millennia BCE Chapter 18: The Greek Entablature and Wooden Antecedents Chapter 19: Highlights of the Brown University Excavations at the Petra Great Temple, 1993–2006 Chapter 20: The Marbles of Three Mythological Sarcophagi at RISD and of Other Sarcophagi Found in Central Italy Chapter 21: Women’s Desire, Archaeology, and Feminist Theory Chapter 22: From Mazzini to Richard Meier: Archaeology and Urban Ideology in Modern Rome