Archaeology of Greece and Rome

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.

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.

• Preface, John Bintliff and Keith RutterList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsSection I: Prehistory1. ‘The coming of the Greeks’ and all that, Oliver Dickinson2. Archaeology and the archaeology of the Greek language, Torsten Meissner3. Survey, excavation and the appearance of the early polis: a reappraisal, Vladimir StissiSection II: Around Homer4. Homer and the ekphrasists: text and picture in the Elder Philostratus’s Scamander (Imagines I.1), Jas Elsner and Michael Squire5. Homer’s audience: what did they see? Annie Schnapp6. Homer and the Sculptors, Nigel SpiveySection III: the Archaic and Classical Greek World7. Potters, hippeis and gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth) – 7th. to 6th. cents. BC, Bruno D’Agostino and M. G. Palmieri8. Space, Society, Religion: a short retrospective and prospective note, François de Polignac9. Modelling the territories of Attic demes: a computational approach, Sylvian Fachard10. Hesiod and the disgraceful shepherds. Pastoral politics in a panhellenic Dichterweihe? José Gonzáles11. ‘Is painting a representation of visible things?’ Conceptual reality in Greek art: a first sketch, Tonio Hölscher12. Coins in a ‘home away from home’: the case of Sicily, Keith RutterSection IV: The Greeks and their Neighbours13. Life on earth and death from heaven, Ernst Künzl14. The idea of an archetype in texts stemming from the empire founded by Cyrus the Great, Gregory NagySection V: The Roman and Much Wider World5. Loropéni and other large enclosed sites in the south-west of Burkina Faso: an outside archaeological view, Henry Hurst16. The poetry of ruins in the Greek and Roman world, Alain Schnapp17. Context matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Aemilia in Rome, Rolf SchneiderSection VI: Anthony Snodgrass in the University and in the Field: Personal Histories18. Anthony in Edinburgh, Keith Rutter19. Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: a personal appreciation, Paul Cartledge20. The first thirty-six years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece, John Bintliff