Art and the Early Greek State

Name: Art and the Early Greek State
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ISBN: 9780521602853

ISBN-10: 0521602858

ISBN-13: 9780521602853

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Authors: Michael Shanks, Colin Renfrew, Wendy Ashmore, Clive Gamble, John O'Shea

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Widely known as an innovative figure in contemporary archaeology, Michael Shanks has written a challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC. He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections between new urban environments, foreign trade, warfare, and the ideology of male sovereignty. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, which draws on an anthropologically informed archaeology, ancient history, art history, material culture studies and structural approaches to the classics, his book raises large questions about the links between design and manufacture, political and social structure, and…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction



The design of archaic Korinth: the question of a beginning and an interpretive archaeology



Craft production in the early city state: some historical and material contexts



Early archaic Korinth: design and style



Consumption: perfume and violence in a Sicilian cemetery



Trade and the consumption of travel



Art, design and the constitutive imagination in the early city state