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Panhellenes at Methone

Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE)

Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin, Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 377 Seiten

2017
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-050127-8 (ISBN)

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Trends in Classics , a new series and journal to be edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, will publish innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications will seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity.

The series Trends in Classics Studies welcomes monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and collections of papers; it will provide an important forum for the ongoing debate about where Classics fits in modern cultural and historical studies.

The journal will be published twice a year with approx. 160 pp. per issue. Each year one issue will be devoted to a specific subject with articles edited by a guest editor.

This volume discusses the multidimensional aspects of the unique, and so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and (trade)marks inscribed, incised, scratched and rarely painted. The 191 vessels were unearthed during excavations in ancient Methone in Pieria, the oldest colony of Greeks from Eretria in the north according to tradition. The Methone find is unique for two reasons. First, most of the pottery dates between 730 and 700 BCE, a period from which very few examples of Greek writing survives. And second, inscribed ceramics, scratched or painted, are extremely rare in Macedonia. This new evidence of inscribed pottery from Methone is invaluable for classical studies, and the papers of this volume contribute notably to current discussions about: the Greeks and the Greek language in Macedonia; the Greek colonization; the pottery trade and the early Greek transport amphoras; trade, the symposium, and other contexts for the development of writing; the ‘alphabets’ of Methone and the introduction of the alphabet in Greece; the dialect(s) of Methone in relation to the Greek dialects; early Greek writing, literacy, and literary beginnings.

J. Strauss Clay, Univ. of Virginia, USA; I. Malkin, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel; Y. Tzifopoulos, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.

"This volume is a sample of how the material retrieved from an underground storage in a colony in Macedonia is of surprisingly great value for scholars in different disciplines and for our understanding of the ancient Greek world and language in general."
Natalia Elvira Astoreca in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.02.32

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 44
Zusatzinfo	56 b/w and 44 col. ill., 4 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	678 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Greek alphabet • Greek inscriptions • Griechische Inschrift • griechisches Alphabet • Handel • Trade
ISBN-10	3-11-050127-9 / 3110501279
ISBN-13	978-3-11-050127-8 / 9783110501278
Zustand	Neuware