Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology

Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 14: Tsountas House Area presents the results of the excavations in this area at Mycenae conducted under the direction...

The Etruscan city of Caere and eleven other Etruscan city-states were among the first urban centers in ancient Italy. Roman descriptions of Etrusca...

How and why did the Greek city-states come into being? The study of Greece in the Archaic period is changing due to new discoveries and interpretat...

This volume explores the final phase of the West Roman Empire, particularly the changing interactions between the imperial authority and external '...

Thrace through the Ages draws attention to the importance of pottery evidence in evaluating archaeological material from Thrace. The volume conside...

Les représentations de Mars Ultor sur les pierres gravées is principally devoted to engraved stones representing the Mars Ultor type and aims to re...

This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford...

Roman Funerary Rituals in Mutina (Modena, Italy) presents the results of a research project undertaken in collaboration with the University of Hudd...

La raccolta e la distribuzione dellacqua a Ventotene in età romana is presented in two parts. The first examines the topographical and technical pr...

Ventotene is a small island located in the Tyrrhenian sea, known in Antiquity as Pandateria. The site hosts the ruins of a large Roman villa for ot...

This book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods. Many of the images ...

This volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on rural settlements in the countryside (chora) of Metaponto presents the excavatio...

Between Roman Culture and Local Tradition presents a detailed analysis of the Roman provincial coinage of Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of T...

It has long been thought that imperial portrait types were officially commissioned to commemorate specific historical moments and that they were ma...

The sixth volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeologys series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek settlement...

In this book Dr Wallace makes a fundamental contribution to the study of urbanism in the Roman provinces. She attempts for the first time to presen...

The fineness of Roman imperial and provincial coinage has been regarded as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the Roman Empire, with the ...

This book examines the concept of 'nonsense' in ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If...

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Medi...

Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few ...

This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produc...

The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides an overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century throu...

Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated ...

Hippos delves deeply into all aspects of ancient Athenian horsemanship, from the scientific analysis of a horse skeleton recently excavated at Phal...

This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the compl...

The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered...

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discover...

How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to int...

The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'...

This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small ...

In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal r...