Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 BC

Rune Frederiksen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-957812-2 (ISBN)

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In this fully illustrated study, Rune Frederiksen assembles all sources for Archaic city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier. Frederiksen discusses the types of fortified settlement and the topography of urban fortification, and also the preservation of structures from early settlements. He also presents an architectural history of Greek fortification walls before the Classical period, and makes the intriguing observation that early monumental architecture developed just as much in fortifications as it did in early temples. This underlines the importance of the secular sphere for the development of early communities across the Greek world.

Dr. Rune Frederiksen is Senior Research Fellow at Danish Institute at Athens.

1. Introduction ; 2. Types of fortification ; 3. City walls in the written record and the visual arts ; 4. Preservation of city walls ; 5. The archaeology of city walls ; 6. Dating city walls ; 7. Architectural and topographical analysis ; 8. The prevalence of city walls in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece ; Catalogue of city walls

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.4.2011
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	114 in-text illustrations, 4 maps
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	227 x 280 mm
Gewicht	968 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-19-957812-5 / 0199578125
ISBN-13	978-0-19-957812-2 / 9780199578122
Zustand	Neuware