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Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology. Revised Second Edition

Book information

Publisher
Bristol Phoenix Press, Univ of Exeter
Year
2008
ISBN
1904675816, 9781904675815
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
89 MB (92968046 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
338\338
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Our knowledge of the dawn of the Hellenic civilization—ca. 900 to 700 BC—is heavily reliant on found artifacts and artisinal matter. Geometric pottery, a leading art of its day, is of special importance for the historians of early Greece—in a large part because it’s plentiful enough to establish a chronology for a period without any contemporary written documents. This volume focuses on a comprehensive study of ten local styles and their relations with one another—culminating in an attempt to fix their absolute chronology in light of the evidence. Finally, a historical sketch shows how the results of the pottery analysis can be combined with other archaeological evidence and later written sources in order to throw more light on the political, social, and economic development of the early Greek city-states.

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