The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline

by
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-10-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
List Price: $165.00

Buy New

Usually Ships in 5-7 Business Days
$156.75

Rent Textbook

Select for Price
There was a problem. Please try again later.

Rent Digital

Rent Digital Options
Online:180 Days access
Downloadable:180 Days
$46.20
Online:365 Days access
Downloadable:365 Days
$54.60
Online:1825 Days access
Downloadable:Lifetime Access
$83.99
*To support the delivery of the digital material to you, a digital delivery fee of $3.99 will be charged on each digital item.
$46.20*

Used Textbook

We're Sorry
Sold Out

Summary

Michael Shanks's lively work is a guide to the discipline of classical archaeology and its objects. One of the main functions of his study is to assess archaeology as a means of reconstructing ancient Greek society using the latest aproaches of social archaeology. In addition, The Classical Archaeology of Greece outlines the history of the discipline and discusses why Classical Greece had such an impact on European civilization and identity. The author focuses on a number of examples, including the relationship between classical archaeology and romanticism and neo-classicism.

Table of Contents

List of figures
ix
Acknowledgements xiii
An Introduction 1(8)
A Search for Sources
9(13)
Cities and Sanctuaries, Art and Archaeology: Roots in the Past
22(31)
A history of pottery studies
22(3)
Typology and classification
25(1)
Art and judgements of style
26(4)
Pottery and the connoisseurs
30(7)
Interlude: Sherlock Holmes, the doctor Watson and John Beazley
37(4)
Iconographers and iconologists
41(2)
Imperial collections and the big digs
43(6)
Ancient history, the historical event and descriptive narrative
49(3)
Concluding remarks
52(1)
Greek Myths and Metanarratives: From Winckelmann to Bernal
53(39)
Collectors and antiquarians
53(2)
Travellers
55(1)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Greek art
56(3)
Constituting the art object
59(1)
Vickers and Gill and the critique of ceramic art
59(6)
Taste and the Greek
65(3)
German academics and the idealisation of Greece
68(1)
Classicism, Romanticism and neo-Classicism
68(6)
Tourism
74(5)
Modern Greeks into the past
79(2)
Hellenism and cultural politics
81(1)
Anthropology and European origins
82(4)
Orientalism and Bernal's critique of the constitution of the Greek
86(5)
Concluding points
91(1)
Scholarship and Discourse
92(27)
Introduction
92(1)
Types of text
93(4)
Communities and institutions
97(2)
Mavericks
99(4)
Discourse
103(1)
Interlude: Classical rhetoric - a theory of discourse
104(4)
Ian Morris and 'Postmodernist Classical Archaeology'
108(3)
Technologies of cultural production: rhetoric, winning friends and trust
111(5)
The writing of history
116(2)
Concluding remarks
118(1)
Rudiments of a Social Archaeology
119(37)
The sources
119(4)
Ideologies of archaeology
123(1)
Commentary and critique: objects and the character of archaeological interpretation
123(5)
The need for a social archaeology of Classical Greece
128(1)
Approaches to social archaeology
128(1)
Pottery and social context
129(3)
The Snodgrass school of Iron Age studies
132(11)
Processual Classical archaeology: some summary points
143(1)
The category of the decorative: on meaning and material culture
144(5)
John Berger, Peter Fuller and lessons of idealist art history
149(5)
Understanding the archaeological and a prehistory of the classical past
154(2)
Some Topics and Issues in a Social Archaeology of Classical Greece
156(13)
Chronology and time
156(3)
Economic prehistory/archaeology
159(1)
Social connections
159(4)
Understanding style
163(2)
Religion and ritual
165(1)
Space, survey and landscape
165(3)
Concluding remarks
168(1)
Archaeology, Classics and Contemporary Culture
169(14)
Nietzsche and the Classics
173(4)
Nietzsche and effective history
177(1)
Archaeological roles: vital histories for the present
178(1)
Actuality: the time of archaeology
179(2)
Classical heritage and consuming interests
181(2)
Select bibliography and suggested further reading 183(10)
Index 193

An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.

This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.

By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.

Digital License

You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.

More details can be found here.

A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.

Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.

Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.