Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 Bc

Zusatztext this well-written book ... is a worthy read for any student of fortification studies and the origins of Greek urbanism. Klappentext In this fully illustrated study! Rune Frederiksen assembles all archaeological and written sources for city walls in the ancient Greek world! and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns! usually considered to date from the Classical period! in fact took place much earlier. Zusammenfassung In this fully illustrated study, Rune Frederiksen assembles all sources for Archaic city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier. Frederiksen discusses the types of fortified settlement and the topography of urban fortification, and also the preservation of structures from early settlements. He also presents an architectural history of Greek fortification walls before the Classical period, and makes the intriguing observation that early monumental architecture developed just as much in fortifications as it did in early temples. This underlines the importance of the secular sphere for the development of early communities across the Greek world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction; 2: Types of fortification; 3: City walls in the written record and the visual arts; 4: Preservation of city walls; 5: The archaeology of city walls; 6: Dating city walls; 7: Architectural and topographical analysis; 8: The prevalence of city walls in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece; Catalogue of city walls

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• Authors: Rune Frederiksen, Rune (Senior Research Fellow Frederiksen, Frederiksen Rune
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2011
• EAN: 9780199578122
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957812-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology; Oxford Monographs on Classical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Art, Ancient World, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style