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Τhis lavishly illustrated book surveys Greek archaeology from the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces to the subordination of the last Hellenistic kingdoms to Rome. Its aim is to study Greek art through the material record, and against its cultural and social backdrop. The book's target audience is archaeology and art students, as well as anyone interested in Greek art and culture. Through concise, systematic covering of the main categories of classical monuments, the reader is taken to a tour of ancient Greece along the most spectacular period in its history, the 1st millennium BC. Architecture and city planning, sculpture, painting, pottery, metallurgy, jewelry, and numismatics are some of the areas covered.
On Monumentality. Book of Abstracts
On MonumentalityInternational Conference "On Monumentality" (Athens, The Acropolis Museum, 4 - 6 April 2019). Programme, Abstracts of Papers, CVs of Participants. Organizing Committee: Argyro Loukaki, Dimitris Plantzos, Konstantinos Soueref, Jenny Albani, Dionysis Mourelatos, and Stavros Alifragkis.
Conference On Monumentality book of abstracts
Conference on Μonumentality book of abstracts, Acropolis Museum, Athens 4-6 April 20192019 •
A century separates us from the “rupture of history” and the historical ambiguities that the early heroic modernism introduced in the urban space, and eighty years from the destruction of the European monumental deposit from the bombings of WWII, a defining moment for the introduction of new kinds of monumentality alongside the old ones. Yet, monumentality still emerges as a major spatial, aesthetic, symbolic, architectural and archaeological phenomenon. In a climate of pessimism in present day western cities, which are dealing with an increasingly precarious present, due to economic and other forms of instability, the durability of monumentality as “urban permanence” (the famous Aldo Rossi concept), appears to be among the few remaining symbolic and spatial rocks and as such is needed, maintained, enhanced, landscaped and even invented. The international conference “On Monumentality”, to be held in the Acropolis Museum, Athens, 4-6 of April, 2019, will explore the following relevant dimensions of monumentality and the monumental both in the European urban and peripheral space and also of cities/countries globally: • Old, new and emergent kinds of monumentality • Struggles around monumentality formation: Social, symbolic and political aspects • Aesthetics of monumentality’s protection • The economic and developmental aspects of monumentality • Monumentality in the urban space and the “natural”/regional landscape • Scales of the monumental In the above context proposals of papers were submitted from architects, archaeologists, urban planners, urban and cultural geographers, art theorists and historians, social anthropologists and other relevant theorists.
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Based on an epigram of Martial (14.172) which describes an anonymous bronze statue of a youth (puer) killing a lizard, it is here proposed that the sculpture known as the Apollo Sauroktonos is not Apollo and not attributable to the sculptor Praxiteles, as Pliny states (NH 34.69-70). The eroticized pose, the eccentric hair-do, and the genre subject matter are fitting neither for the god nor for the mid-fourth-century date. Arguably this statue type, so popular in Roman times, was part of a trend in the Hellenistic period for genre figures, and owed its considerable popularity to Roman taste for ‘sexy boys’.
E. Solomon (ed.), Contested Antiquity. Archaeological Heritage and Social Conflict in Modern Greece and Cyprus
Hellas Mon Amour: Revisiting Greece’s national “sites of trauma”2021 •
If “the past is a foreign country”, then Greece’s classical past could be described – and it has been – as an ideal, as well as idyllic land, colonized by the West. This paper employs post-colonial theory combined with discussions of trauma as a historical agent in order to investigate ways in which contemporary Greek museums and archaeological sites strive to attract the colonial gaze by reclaiming ownership of the nation’s (neo)-classical past; at the same time, however, this exercise may be seen as an effort to alleviate the pains of modernity as experienced by a people who has never overcome the trauma of its separation from its famed antiquity. As a result, Greek archaeological spaces – both museums and sites – can be described as “sites of trauma”, as the placescapes where the unlived experiences of an imagined past become revived. A number of examples are discussed, including the Benaki and Acropolis Museums, as well as several clusters of antiquities preserved “in situ”, mostly within the urban grid or incorporated in buildings and other structures, such as Athenian metro stations. Such cases of incidental archaeology, the paper contends, are devised in order to suture, in the psychoanalytical sense of the term, Greek national imaginary onto the very sites where the nation experienced the trauma of its separation from its past.
The National Museum in Cracow preserves an outstanding set of gems collected by Constantine Schmidt-Ciążyński (1818-1889). Within this extensive group of objects two very rare intaglios bearing a particular intriguing motif, the double-heads device, can be noticed. Since the very beginning this kind of depiction was interpreted by scholars differently and many hypothesis have already been drawn. Presented paper aims to explain what is the meaning of this strange iconography and where did it originate from.
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Book of abstracts of the conference Space, Art and Architecture Between East and West. The Revolutionary Spirit.
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Rodríguez Pérez, Diana (ed.). Greek Art in Context. Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives, pp.1-15. Routledge, Oxford and New York
Introduction. Contextualizing Context2017 •
In: What's New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period, edited by V. di Napoli, F. Camia, V. Evangelidis, D. Grigoropoulos, D. Rogers & S. Vlizos, pp. xiii-xxviii. Athens: NHRF
What's New in Roman Greece? An IntroductionA Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic, ed. Jane DeRose Evans, pp. 598-610.
Archaeology and Acquisition: The Experience of Republican Rome2013 •
ΤΥΠΟΙ: Greek and Roman Coins Seen Through Their Images Noble Issuers, Humble Users? Proceedings of the International Conference Organized by the Belgian and French Schools at Athens, 26-28 September 2012
“For good ye are and bad, and like to coins”: why bother with seal-impressions.2018 •
P.P. Iossif & W. van de Put (eds), Greek Iconographies: Identities and Media in Context. A Seminar organised by the Netherlands Institute at Athens and the Belgian School at Athens.
Greek iconographies: meandering paths to understanding images2018 •
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119th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Boston, 04-07.01.2018
Extreme survivors. Papyrological and textual problems in the Latin papyri from Dura EuroposStudia Historica Nitriensia
Equestrian Statues in Antiquity: City, People, Monuments2018 •
Blackwell Companion to Greek Art, edited by T. J. Smith and D. Plantzos
Architectural sculpture2012 •
M. Lagogianni-Georgakarakou - Th. Koutsogiannis, These are what we fought for. Antiquities and the Greek War for Independence, pp. 186-200
Bavarian Philhellenes and antiquity2020 •
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Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
HELLENISTIC CAMEOS: PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION AND CHRONOLOGY*1996 •
The Gems EConference Abstracts Booklet with Figures
E. Gagetti, G. Chiumello, Not only terracottas: 'Freaks' in Roman glyptics2017 •
M. Lagogianni-Georgakarakos, Th. Koutsogiannis (eds), These are what we fought for. Antiquities and the Greek War of Independence, Athens 2020
Journal pages from the archaeological life of Christos Tsountas at Mycenae2020 •
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The Journal of Historical Sociology
On the Social Construction of Hellenism Cold War Narratives of Modernity, Development and Democracy for Greece2012 •
Greek coins types in context: a short state of the art, Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute at Athens, XX.1 (P.P. IOSSIF and W. VAN DE PUT, eds., Greek Iconographies : Identities and Media in Context), 2016, p. 115-141.
Greek coin types in context: a short state of the art2016 •
American Journal of Archaeology
Crystals and Lenses In the Graeco-Roman World1997 •
Our Mythical Education: The Reception of Classical Myth Worldwide in Formal Education, 1900-2020 (ed. L. Maurice)
Modern Greek "Prehistory": Ancient Greek Myth and Mycenaean Civilization in Modern Greek Education2021 •
These are what we fought for. Antiquities and the Greek War of Independence.
From Phigaleia to Carlton Hill. Philhellenism and classical ideal during the War of Liberation.2020 •