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Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece

Manipulating Material Culture

Employs a new theoretical approach toward ancient Greek material culture

Heroic Offerings

The Terracotta Plaques from the Spartan Sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra

The first in-depth study of the terracotta plaques from the sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra at Amyklai

Treasure Map

A Guide to the Delian Inventories

A peek at the gifts the Greeks offered to their gods

Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature

Traces the principle that luxury corrupts its possessor as seen through a millennium of Greek literature

Community Identity and Archaeology

Dynamic Communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan

Exploring the notion of community identity in an archaeological context

Classical Spies

American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece

Archaeologists and espionage during WWII

Discovering the Greek Countryside at Metaponto

Explores one of the earliest and most comprehensive archeological explorations of rural Greece

Worshipping Aphrodite

Art and Cult in Classical Athens

Delves into the various characteristics of Aphrodite as the people of Athens conceived of her

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece

Reveals how the concept of money did not materialize until the invention of Greek coinage

Capturing Troy

The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art

An investigation into how imagery on Greek vases is or is not used as narrative, and the extent to which visual imagery depends upon literary sources

The Battles of Armageddon

Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age

One site. Thirty battles over four thousand years. Egyptians, Crusaders, Mongols, Israelis

Hellenism in Late Antiquity

Studies Hellenism's influence on a predominantly Christian world

Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting

Myth and Performance

A welcome examination of some curious creatures and a more curious god