The Archaeology of Greece and Rome: Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass

About the Book

Over his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Edinburgh University (1961-1976), Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge (1976-2001) and currently Fellow of the McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass has influenced and been associated with a long series of eminent classical archaeologists, historians and linguists.
In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement, this collection of essays by a range of international scholars reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey. Not only do they celebrate his achievements but they also represent new avenues of research which will have a broad appeal.

Table of Contents:
Preface, John Bintliff and Keith Rutter List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Section I: Prehistory 1. ‘The coming of the Greeks’ and all that, Oliver Dickinson 2. Archaeology and the archaeology of the Greek language, Torsten Meissner 3. Survey, excavation and the appearance of the early polis: a reappraisal, Vladimir Stissi Section II: Around Homer 4. Homer and the ekphrasists: text and picture in the Elder Philostratus’s Scamander (Imagines I.1), Jas Elsner and Michael Squire 5. Homer’s audience: what did they see? Annie Schnapp 6. Homer and the Sculptors, Nigel Spivey Section III: the Archaic and Classical Greek World 7. Potters, hippeis and gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth) – 7th. to 6th. cents. BC, Bruno D’Agostino and M. G. Palmieri 8. Space, Society, Religion: a short retrospective and prospective note, François de Polignac 9. Modelling the territories of Attic demes: a computational approach, Sylvian Fachard 10. Hesiod and the disgraceful shepherds. Pastoral politics in a panhellenic Dichterweihe? José Gonzáles 11. ‘Is painting a representation of visible things?’ Conceptual reality in Greek art: a first sketch, Tonio Hölscher 12. Coins in a ‘home away from home’: the case of Sicily, Keith Rutter Section IV: The Greeks and their Neighbours 13. Life on earth and death from heaven, Ernst Künzl 14. The idea of an archetype in texts stemming from the empire founded by Cyrus the Great, Gregory Nagy Section V: The Roman and Much Wider World 5. Loropéni and other large enclosed sites in the south-west of Burkina Faso: an outside archaeological view, Henry Hurst 16. The poetry of ruins in the Greek and Roman world, Alain Schnapp 17. Context matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Aemilia in Rome, Rolf Schneider Section VI: Anthony Snodgrass in the University and in the Field: Personal Histories 18. Anthony in Edinburgh, Keith Rutter 19. Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: a personal appreciation, Paul Cartledge 20. The first thirty-six years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece, John Bintliff

About the Author :
John Bintliff is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century AD (2012), The Death of Archaeological Theory? ( 2011), Conceptual Issues in Environmental Archaeology (EUP, 1988). He is the editor of A Companion to Archaeology (2003). Keith Rutter (1939 2024) was Honorary Fellow & Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Edinburgh.

Review :
The authors of this book, former colleagues or students of Anthony Snodgrass, offer excellent and in part personal contributions that demonstrate in a wide variety of ways the lasting impact of his scholarship - an attracting force that clearly stimulated the distinguished interdisciplinary papers collected here.