Fortifications of Arkadian City States in the Classical and - Hellenistic Period

Zusatztext The book is well illustrated with numerous topographical plans and black-and-white photographs, many of them taken by Maher himself. This is meticulous scholarship, all the more valuable because it brings information collected from the scattered recent reports of various field archaeologists and earlier explorers together between two covers. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Informationen zum Autor Matthew P. Maher is a classical archaeologist that has worked at a number of different projects in Greece over the last 15 years (including Stymphalos and most recently at Sikyon where he is a field supervisor of the current excavations). Besides Greek military architecture (and Greek archaeology in general), Maher is interested in 19th century travel writing in Greece, Pausanias, modern Greek folklore, and Roman ceramics. He was awarded a DPhil by the the University of British Columbia in 2012. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung This illustrated study comprises of a comprehensive and detailed account of the historical development of Greek military architecture and defensive planning specifically in Arkadia, a region in the centre of the Peloponnese in Greece, in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Arkadia, City Walls, and the Polis 3: Arkadian Fortification Types and Construction 4: Tactical Development of the Constituent Parts of City Walls 5: Topographical, Architectural, and Historical Analysis 6: The Fortifications of Arkadian City States Catalogue of the Fortified Poleis of Arkadia Appendix of Other Attested Fortified Arkadian Poleis

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• Authors: Matthew P. Maher, Matthew P. (Independent Researcher) Maher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2017
• EAN: 9780198786597
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878659-7
• No. of pages: 442
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Ancient World, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology