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The Italic People of Ancient Apulia: New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs
T. Carpenter
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Description for The Italic People of Ancient Apulia: New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs
hardcover. This book makes recent scholarship on the Italic people of fourth-century BC Apulia available to English-speaking audiences. Editor(s): Carpenter, T. H.; Lynch, K. M.; Robinson, E. G. D. Num Pages: 369 pages, 95 b/w illus. 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 184 x 257 x 20. Weight in Grams: 964.
The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence. Scholars have largely ignored these people and the region they inhabited. During the past several decades archaeologists have made significant progress in revealing the cultures of Apulia through excavations of habitation sites and un-plundered tombs, often published in Italian journals. This book makes the broad range of recent scholarship - from new excavations and contexts to archaeometric testing of production hypotheses to archaeological evidence for reconsidering painter attributions - available to English-speaking ... Read more
The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence. Scholars have largely ignored these people and the region they inhabited. During the past several decades archaeologists have made significant progress in revealing the cultures of Apulia through excavations of habitation sites and un-plundered tombs, often published in Italian journals. This book makes the broad range of recent scholarship - from new excavations and contexts to archaeometric testing of production hypotheses to archaeological evidence for reconsidering painter attributions - available to English-speaking ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
369
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107041868
SKU
V9781107041868
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About T. Carpenter
T. H. Carpenter is Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Classics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He is author of numerous books and articles on Greek and South Italian iconography. K. M. Lynch is Associate Professor in the Classics Department at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of The Symposium in Context, which won ... Read more
Reviews for The Italic People of Ancient Apulia: New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs
'This useful and authoritative volume … provides much-needed context from archaeological evidence. A major contribution …' C. King, Choice 'This book has a good thematic focus, and the short summaries at the beginning of each part are helpful. A wide range of different studies are presented, and the reader will learn much about Apulian red-figure pottery as well as gain ... Read more