The Italic People of Ancient Apulia

The Italic People of Ancient Apulia PDF Author: T. H. Carpenter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041864
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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This book makes recent scholarship on the Italic people of fourth-century BC Apulia available to English-speaking audiences.

The Italic People of Ancient Apulia

The Italic People of Ancient Apulia PDF Author: T. H. Carpenter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041864
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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Book Description
This book makes recent scholarship on the Italic people of fourth-century BC Apulia available to English-speaking audiences.

The Italic People of Ancient Apulia

The Italic People of Ancient Apulia PDF Author: T. H. Carpenter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139992708
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence. Scholars have largely ignored these people and the region they inhabited. During the past several decades archaeologists have made significant progress in revealing the cultures of Apulia through excavations of habitation sites and un-plundered tombs, often published in Italian journals. This book makes the broad range of recent scholarship - from new excavations and contexts to archaeometric testing of production hypotheses to archaeological evidence for reconsidering painter attributions - available to English-speaking audiences. In it thirteen scholars from Italy, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Australia present targeted essays on aspects of the cultures of the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC and the surrounding decades.

Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy

Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy PDF Author: Emma Blake
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107063205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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This innovative book uses social network analysis to trace the origins of pre-Roman Italian peoples from their earliest exchange networks.

The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe

The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe PDF Author: Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317544536
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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"The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions. The evidence - whether archaeological or written - is notoriously difficult to interpret, and the variety of religions documented by the sources and the range of languages used are bewildering. The "Handbook" brings together leading authorities on pre-Christian religious history to provide a state-of-the-art survey. The first section of the book covers the Prehistoric period, from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. The second section covers the period since writing systems began. Ranging across the Mediterranean and Northern, Celtic and Slavic Europe, the essays assess the archaeological and textual evidence. Dispersed archaeological remains and biased outside sources constitute our main sources of information, so the complex task of interpreting these traces is explained for each case. The "Handbook" also aims to highlight the plurality of religion in ancient Europe: the many ways in which it is expressed, notably in discourse, action, organization, and material culture; how it is produced and maintained by different people with different interests; how communities always connect with or disassociate from adjunct communities and how their beliefs and rituals are shaped by these relationships. The "Handbook" will be invaluable to anyone interested in ancient History and also to scholars and students of Religion, Anthropology, Archaeology, and Classical Studies.

A Critical History of Early Rome

A Critical History of Early Rome PDF Author: Gary Forsythe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520249912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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"A remarkable book,in which Forsythe uses his thorough knowledge of the ancient evidence to reconstruct a coherent and eminently plausible picture which in turn illuminates early Roman society more immediately than any other category of evidence is able to do. Forsythe displays his impressive ability to demonstrate to what extent and why the tradition that dominates the extant historical narratives is not credible."—Kurt Raaflaub, author of The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece "An excellent synthetic treatment of early Roman history found in both modern literary and archaeological materials."—Richard Mitchell, author of Patricians and Plebeians

The Etruscans

The Etruscans PDF Author: Massimo Pallottino
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity

Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity PDF Author: Jonas Grethlein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110719265X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

The Peoples of Ancient Italy

The Peoples of Ancient Italy PDF Author: Gary D. Farney
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501500147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Although there are many studies of certain individual ancient Italic groups (e.g. the Etruscans, Gauls and Latins), there is no work that takes a comprehensive view of each of them—the famous and the less well-known—that existed in Iron Age and Roman Italy. Moreover, many previous studies have focused only on the material evidence for these groups or on what the literary sources have to say about them. This handbook is conceived of as a resource for archaeologists, historians, philologists and other scholars interested in finding out more about Italic groups from the earliest period they are detectable (early Iron Age, in most instances), down to the time when they begin to assimilate into the Roman state (in the late Republican or early Imperial period). As such, it will endeavor to include both archaeological and historical perspectives on each group, with contributions from the best-known or up-and-coming archaeologists and historians for these peoples and topics. The language of the volume is English, but scholars from around the world have contributed to it. This volume covers the ancient peoples of Italy more comprehensively in individual chapters, and it is also distinct because it has a thematic section.

Northern Italy in the Roman World

Northern Italy in the Roman World PDF Author: Carolynn E. Roncaglia
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142142519X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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"Using a wide range of epigraphic, archaeological, numismatic, and literary evidence, Northern Italy in the Roman World traces the evolution of Northern Italy from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity and examines how the Roman state dramatically changed the region. This study on a much-neglected part of the Roman world uses northern Italy as a case study for examining the impact of the Roman empire on areas that it controlled. The book finds that while levels of Roman intervention varied considerably over time, the Roman state greatly influenced both local and transregional developments. This influence is shown to be pervasive and reflected in material ranging from loom weights to social networks and from ritual horse burials to the careers of writers"--

Patterns in the Production of Apulian Red-Figure Pottery

Patterns in the Production of Apulian Red-Figure Pottery PDF Author: Edward Herring
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527517969
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections, the attribution of vases to painters and workshops, iconographic and stylistic matters, and individual vessels and vase forms. This partly reflects the history of vase-painting scholarship, which grew out of antiquarian collecting during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the fact that a full archaeological provenance is not preserved for the overwhelming majority of vessels. This book takes a different approach by using a database containing in excess of 13,500 vessels and fragments to identify patterns in the production and decoration of Apulian vases that cast light on the choices made by vase-producers and the preferences of their customers. Individual chapters consider the popularity of different vessel shapes over time, the use of highly generic decorative scenes, which are characteristic of Apulian red-figure, as well as the popularity of scenes of myth, images of the gods, scenes of the life of the non-Greek population of ancient Puglia, and those showing funerary monuments. As virtually all of the vases in the sample derive from tombs, the patterns identified provide insights into the ways in which the ancient populations of South-East Italy, both Greek and indigenous, honoured their dead.