Old Lands: A Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese

ISBN-13: 9780815363446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 564 str.

Christopher Witmore

Opis

Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. It explores long-term changes in society and technology across time in this region.

Spis treści

Prologue: The measure of the Morea?; 1. Lines in stone: Roads, canals, walls, faults, and marine terraces; 2. Ancient Corinth: Descent into memory, ascent into oblivion; 3. Acrocorinth: From gate to summit; 4. Along the A7 (Moréas), by car; 5. Kleonai to Nemea; 6. Nemea: A transect; 7. An erstwhile aqueduct: Lucretian flow; 8. To Mykenes station, by train; 9. About Mycenae, history and archaeology; 10. A path to the Heraion; 11. Through groves of citrus to Argos; 12. Argos, a democratic polis and Plutarch’s Pyrrhus, a synkrisis (comparison); 13. Modern spectacle through an ancient theatre; 14. Argos to Anapli on the hoof, with a stop at Tiryns; 15. A stroll through Nafplion; 16. The road to Epidaurus: Frazer and Pausanias; 17. Paleolithic to Bronze Age amid Venetian: A museum; 18. To Asine: Legal objects; 19. To Vivari, by boat; 20. Into the Bedheni Valley; 21. Through the Southern Argolid; 22. Ermioni/Hermion/Kastri: A topology; 23. Looking southwest, to what has become of an ancient oikos; 24. Across the Adheres, iterations; 25. Troizen, verdant and in ruin; 26. To Methana; 27. Into the Saronic Gulf; Epilogue: On chorography

O autorze

Christopher Witmore is professor of archaeology and classics at Texas Tech University. He is co-author of Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012, with B. Olsen, M. Shanks, and T. Webmoor). Routledge published his co-edited Archaeology in the Making in 2013 (paperback 2017, with W. Rathje and M. Shanks). He is also co-editor of the Routledge series Archaeological Orientations (with G. Lucas).