Hesperia articles from October 2006

Hesperia archives from October 2006

The evolution of the Pan Painter's artistic style.
October 1, 2006... ABSTRACT In this article the author explores the decorative style of the Pan Painter in order to distance him from the so-called Mannerists and highlight the three-dimensional nature of his artistry. An analysis of his oeuvre reveals...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape.
October 1, 2006... ABSTRACT From 1997 to 2003, the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS) investigated a 350-[km.sup.2] region east of the ancient city of Corinth, focusing primarily on the northern Corinthian plain. EKAS developed an...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: introduction.
October 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Corinth was one of the great cities of the ancient world, in large measure because of its location near strategic crossroads to the east. (1) The Isthmus of Corinth provided overland passage from southern to central Greece,...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: research components.
October 1, 2006... RESEARCH COMPONENTS Numerous research components were included under the EKAS umbrella (Table 2). They are described briefly here as an introduction to the detailed treatments of methods and results below. EKAS created a precise...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: research philosophy and interdisciplinary approaches.
October 1, 2006... RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES A persistent concern in regional archaeology is the continuing inability of survey data to support increasingly sophisticated social questions. Because archaeological survey permits in...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: the environmental setting.
October 1, 2006... THE ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING The eastern Corinthia is environmentally diverse, and thus may be partitioned in a variety of ways for analysis. One approach is to suggest that three notional geographic zones make up the EKAS survey area: the...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: methods of primary data collection.
October 1, 2006... METHODS OF PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION The main archaeological activity of EKAS was to systematically investigate a sample of landscapes within the survey universe. As noted above, the survey operated in three modes: intensive discovery mode,...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: experiments to evaluate and calibrate results.
October 1, 2006... EXPERIMENTS TO EVALUATE AND CALIBRATE RESULTS All regional-scale surface surveys would benefit by having an experimental component operating in tandem with the main archaeological reconnaissance. EKAS conducted a series of experiments in...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: putting it all together: the classical landscapes of Kromna.
October 1, 2006... PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: THE CLASSICAL LANDSCAPES OF KROMNA The densest and most diverse concentration of cultural material in the survey area occurred in the northern Corinthian plain in an area previously identified by Wiseman as the...

The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape: conclusions.
October 1, 2006... CONCLUSIONS Dense human occupation of the eastern Corinthia for more than 8,000 years, combined with an active tectonic, sedimentary, and erosional landscape, presents serious challenges to eliciting meaningful data from the surface...

Thucydides' sources and the Spartan plan at Pylos.
October 1, 2006... To W. K. Pritchett ABSTRACT Thucydides' account of the Spartan-Athenian conflict at Pylos contains topographical inaccuracies that demonstrate that the historian had not visited the site. Emendation is unwarranted, in part because the...

The tippling serpent in the art of Lakonia and beyond.
October 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The iconographic scheme of a snake drinking from a cup appears on a series of stone reliefs and terracotta plaques from Lakonia depicting seated figures, now generally interpreted as dedications to local heroes. It is argued here...

Late Classical and Hellenistic furniture and furnishings in the epigraphical record.
October 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article reviews the epigraphical evidence for furniture and furnishings from Late Classical and Hellenistic Greece, with particular attention to the furniture recorded in the treasure lists of Greek sanctuaries, and in the...