Recently added articles from Hesperia:
The evolution of the Pan Painter's artistic style.
Oct 01, 2006; Smith, Amy C. ... ABSTRACT In this article the author explores the decorative style of the Pan Painter in order to distance him from the so-called Mannerists and highlight the three-dimensional nature of his artistry. An analysis of his oeuvre reveals traits shared with the Berlin Painter and ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... ABSTRACT From 1997 to 2003, the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS) investigated a 350-[km.sup.2] region east of the ancient city of Corinth, focusing primarily on the northern Corinthian plain. EKAS developed an interdisciplinary methodology that emphasizes novel ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: introduction.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... INTRODUCTION Corinth was one of the great cities of the ancient world, in large measure because of its location near strategic crossroads to the east. (1) The Isthmus of Corinth provided overland passage from southern to central Greece, and linked the Corinthian Gulf, leading to ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: research components.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... RESEARCH COMPONENTS Numerous research components were included under the EKAS umbrella (Table 2). They are described briefly here as an introduction to the detailed treatments of methods and results below. EKAS created a precise terminology to define specific methodological ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: research philosophy and interdisciplinary approaches.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES A persistent concern in regional archaeology is the continuing inability of survey data to support increasingly sophisticated social questions. Because archaeological survey permits in Greece typically do not allow regional ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: the environmental setting.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... THE ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING The eastern Corinthia is environmentally diverse, and thus may be partitioned in a variety of ways for analysis. One approach is to suggest that three notional geographic zones make up the EKAS survey area: the northern Corinthian plain, a lowland ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: methods of primary data collection.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... METHODS OF PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION The main archaeological activity of EKAS was to systematically investigate a sample of landscapes within the survey universe. As noted above, the survey operated in three modes: intensive discovery mode, extensive discovery mode, and site ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: experiments to evaluate and calibrate results.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... EXPERIMENTS TO EVALUATE AND CALIBRATE RESULTS All regional-scale surface surveys would benefit by having an experimental component operating in tandem with the main archaeological reconnaissance. EKAS conducted a series of experiments in 1999 and 2001 with two specific aims: (1) ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: putting it all together: the classical landscapes of Kromna.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: THE CLASSICAL LANDSCAPES OF KROMNA The densest and most diverse concentration of cultural material in the survey area occurred in the northern Corinthian plain in an area previously identified by Wiseman as the Classical town of Kromna. A place by this ...
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: conclusions.
Oct 01, 2006; Tartaron, Thomas F. ... CONCLUSIONS Dense human occupation of the eastern Corinthia for more than 8,000 years, combined with an active tectonic, sedimentary, and erosional landscape, presents serious challenges to eliciting meaningful data from the surface record. The density of material across the ...
Thucydides' sources and the Spartan plan at Pylos.
Oct 01, 2006; Samons, Loren J., II ... To W. K. Pritchett ABSTRACT Thucydides' account of the Spartan-Athenian conflict at Pylos contains topographical inaccuracies that demonstrate that the historian had not visited the site. Emendation is unwarranted, in part because the historian's erroneous account of ...
The tippling serpent in the art of Lakonia and beyond.
Oct 01, 2006; Salapata, Gina ... ABSTRACT The iconographic scheme of a snake drinking from a cup appears on a series of stone reliefs and terracotta plaques from Lakonia depicting seated figures, now generally interpreted as dedications to local heroes. It is argued here that the drinking snake in association ...
Late Classical and Hellenistic furniture and furnishings in the epigraphical record.
Oct 01, 2006; Andrianou, Dimitra ... ABSTRACT This article reviews the epigraphical evidence for furniture and furnishings from Late Classical and Hellenistic Greece, with particular attention to the furniture recorded in the treasure lists of Greek sanctuaries, and in the inscriptions recording loans, mortgages, ...