Books in the Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology series

Examines the textual and archaeological evidence for the history from 750 to 500 BC. The significant period of the island's past is examined in three parts. The history of Cyprus is a blend of the Greek world to the West and the civilizations of the East.

The Parthenon and the Erechtheion, two of the best-known monuments of ancient Athens, were once filled with countless priceless treasures. This volume presents the evidence for this massive collection of ancient objects d'art - annually inscribed inventories on tablets written by Athenian officials in the classical period.

This volume brings together for the first time ancient Macedonian stone funerary monuments, or stelai, which feature figured representations of the deceased and their relatives. Taking as its focus the Classical and Hellenistic periods, it goes beyond artistic evaluation to consider the social history and wider meaning of the monuments.

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy from the Iron Age to the Archaic Period.

A fully illustrated study of the iconography of komast dancers ('revellers') in Archaic Greece. These figures appear in black-figure vase-painting and in other artistic media, and have long been associated with the worship of Dionysos, god of wine and drama, and the origins of Greek theatre.

A comprehensive and fully illustrated study of silver vessels from ancient Macedonia from the 4th to the 2nd centuries BC. Eleni Zimi demonstrates that these vessels, recovered from the tombs of their owners, were status symbols, reflecting the taste for luxury in the Macedonian court from the reign of Philip II onwards.

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.

This book comprises a significant contribution to our understanding of Graeco-Egyptian relations during the 7th and 6th centuries BC and also demonstrates that Polanyian economic theory can play an invaluable role in the ongoing debate about the concepts best employed to analyse the ancient Greek economy.

Spectacular archaelogical discoveries were made during the 1970s and 1980s in Bulgaria and North Aegean Greece which sparked international interest in the forgotten Odrysian kingdom of Thrace. This book presents these and earlier discoveries in their archaelogical and historical context.

This text looks at Dionysian imagery in 5th-century Athens, and should be of interest to scholars and advanced students of classical archaeology and art, and historians of religion.

This volume follows the development of Greek gem engraving from Alexander to Augustus. Hellenistic gems are studied in their archaeological context with an assessment of the evidence of their use, significance, and value. The book focuses on subject-matter, technique, and style, as well as problems of chronology and distribution.

A unique, fully illustrated, and fascinating study of all the known carved reliefs decorating official inscriptions in classical and Hellenistic Athens. The author's new and illuminating work on the iconography of these reliefs shows how the gods, heroes, and other personifications were not simply decorative, but integral to the overall political message.

Illustrated with numerous photographs, figures, and maps, this book looks at the complex variations in tile shape, technical features, and decorative motifs which occurred across Greece, particularly during the Archaic period. It is for excavators, surveyors, and architectural historians.

The first major study of the themes used in the decoration of sarcophagi for children in Rome and Ostia from the late first to early fourth century AD, by an acknowledged expert on classical art and archaeology.

A unique, major survey of the magnificent fortifications built all over Greece in the Hellenistic period (c.4th-1st centuries BC). Among the most impressive of ancient remains, they provide fascinating evidence of secular classical architecture, as well as insights on the political history of Hellenistic Greece.

A detailed survey of the inscriptions of Greece before 403 BC, which attempts to construct a chronological system divided into 25 year periods, similar to those used for Greek sculpture and pottery. This revised edition contains additional photographs of the most significant inscriptions.

The aim of this study is to place the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens. The text contains a selection of inscriptions that will provide students with an accurate picture of the art of writing and state of literacy of classical Greece.

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. This is the first complete catalogue of its friezes and other decorative reliefs. Detailed descriptions are illustrated by hundreds of previously unpublished photographs. Also discussed are the discovery of the Mausoleum and the controversy about who carved its friezes.

The Late Mannerists were Athenian vase-painters working in the fifth century BC. They specialized in shapes used during the symposium, and had a particular flair for story telling. Their unusual style of painting combines elements of the Late Archaic period with characteristics of the Classical period.

Philippe Rouet examines how Attic painted vases were interpreted by Edmond Pottier (1855-1934), founder of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, and John Beazley (1885-1970), the master of attributions in the twentieth century. The comparison shows two markedly different approaches, one primarily archaeological, the other centred on the history of ancient art.

Examines dwarfs in myth and everyday life in ancient Egypt and Greece. This study brings together a range of little known iconographic, epigraphic, literary, and anthropological evidence. It covers areas such as the history of caricature and the portrait; medical history, and in particular the development of the perception of congenital disorders.

One of the first personalities to be identified in Etruscan art, the Micali Painter is one of the liveliest of ancient vase-painters. This is the first full stylistic study, with a catalogue of his surviving work.

This volume is a regional study of the history, archaeology, and religious profile of the Late Antique Dodecanese (the islands of the south-eastern Aegean), exploring how the spread of Christianity altered these communities and how the prosperity of the eastern Roman Empire, and the new capital in Constantinople, affected their life.

Bobou offers a systematic analysis of ancient Greek statues of children from the sanctuaries, houses, and necropoleis of the Hellenistic world in order to understand their function and meaning. Looking at the literary and epigraphical evidence, she argues that these statues were important for transmitting civic values to future citizens.

This up-to-date survey of Aegean archaeology at the beginning of the Iron Age (late 11th and 10th centuries BC) has chapters on pottery, metal finds, burial customs, architectural remains (and how to use them to understand the social and political structure of the society), cult practices, and developments towards state formation.

Hellenistic royal portraits survive on coins and in sculpture. Further statues have been discovered in literature and inscriptions of the period. This work collects together the major extant portraits and uses the documentary evidence to evaluate their context, meaning, purpose and broad history.

The total number of extant Apulian red-figured vases cannot fall far short of 10,000. The first of two volumes, this work attempts to survey the history and development of the fabric as a whole, from its beginnings in the later fifth century BC to its end around 300. It also gives a representative selection of the minor pieces.

More than 5000 vases from Apulia are classified and catalogued in these volumes. These vases are of great importance for the history of Greek art and, in their representations, for our knowledge of Greek mythology and for illustration of lost literature.

Although they do not survive intact, composite statues of gold and ivory were the most acclaimed art form in classical antiquity. This study presents literary references to lost works, and representations of them in other media.