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The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama.
List of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Kevin F. Daly & Lee Ann Riccardi
Chapter 1 Family Meals: Banquet Imagery on Classical Athenian Funerary Reliefs
Wendy E. Closterman
Chapter 2: On When and Where to Find Athenian Forts
Kevin F. Daly
Chapter 3: Securing the Sacred: The Accessibility and Control of Attic Sanctuaries
Laura Gawlinski
Chapter 4: The Eagle of Zeus in Greek Art and Literature
Seán Hemingway
Chapter 5: Solon's Property Classes on the Athenian Acropolis? A Reconsideration of IG 13.831 and Ath. Pol. 7.4
Catherine M. Keesling
Chapter 6: The Architecture of the Athenian Acropolis before Perikles: The Life and Death of the Small Limestone Buildings
Nancy L. Klein
Chapter 7 "To Market, To Market": Pottery, the Individual and Trade in Athens
Elizabeth M. Langridge-Noti
Chapter 8: The Transport Amphoras at Koroni: Contribution to the Historical Narrative and Economic History of the Early Hellenistic Aegean
Mark L. Lawall
Chapter 9: Drinking Cups and the Symposium at Athens in the Archaic and Classical Periods
Kathleen M. Lynch
Chapter 10: Three Late Medieval Kilns from the Athenian Agora
Camilla MacKay
Chapter 11: "There will be blood...": The Cult of Artemis Tauropolos at Halai Araphenides
Jeremy McInerney
Chapter 12: Homage & Abuse: Three Portraits of Roman Women from the Athenian Agora
Lee Ann Riccardi
Chapter 13: Polis Inscriptions and Jurors in Fourth-century Athens
M. B. Richardson
Chapter 14: Sophokles' Philoktetes: The Cult of Herakles Dramatized
Christina A. Salowey
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Kevin F. Daly is associate professor of classics at Bucknell University.
Lee Ann Riccardi is professor of art history and classical studies at the College of New Jersey.
Summary
The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama.
