Table Of ContentThe Archaeology of
Greece and Rome
Frontispiece Anthony Snodgrass, July 2014. Photo: courtesy Annemarie
Künzl-Snodgrass.
The
Archaeology
of Greece
and Rome
Studies in Honour of Anthony
Snodgrass
Edited by John Bintliff and
Keith Rutter
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Contents
Preface – John Bintliff and Keith Rutter vii
List of Contributors viii
List of Abbreviations x
Section I Prehistory
1. ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That 3
Oliver Dickinson
2. Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language:
On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in -εύς 22
Torsten Meissner
3. Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early Polis:
A Reappraisal 31
Vladimir Stissi
Section II Around Homer
4. Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder
Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (Imagines I.1) 57
Michael Squire and Jaś Elsner
5. Homer’s Audience: What Did They See? 100
Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon
6. Homer and the Sculptors 113
Nigel Spivey
Section III The Archaic and Classical Greek World
7. Potters, Hippeis and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth),
Seventh to Sixth Centuries bc 155
Bruno d’Agostino and M. G. Palmieri, translated by
Federico Poole, with an appendix by A. C. Cassio
8. Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and
Prospective Note 183
François de Polignac
9. Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational
Approach 192
Sylvian Fachard
vi THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREECE AND ROME
10. Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a
Panhellenic Dichterweihe? 223
José M. González
11. ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’
Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch 262
Tonio Hölscher
12. Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily 289
Keith Rutter
Section IV The Greeks and their Neighbours
13. Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral
of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine) 317
Ernst Künzl
14. The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire
Founded by Cyrus the Great 337
Gregory Nagy
Section V The Roman and Much Wider World
15. Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West
of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View 361
Henry Hurst
16. The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome 382
Alain Schnapp
17. Context Matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Paulli
in Rome 402
Rolf Michael Schneider
Section VI T he Scholar in the University and in the Field:
Personal Histories
18. Anthony in Edinburgh 437
Keith Rutter
19. Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in
Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation 442
Paul Cartledge
20. The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project,
Central Greece 447
John Bintliff
Index 458
Preface
Over the course of his long and illustrious career as Lecturer, Reader and
Professor in Edinburgh University (1961–76), Lawrence Professor of Clas-
sical Archaeology at Cambridge (1976–2001) and currently Fellow of the
McDonald Institute of Archaeology at Cambridge, Anthony Snodgrass
has infl uenced and been associated with a long series of eminent Classical
linguists, historians and archaeologists.
In November 2014 a special conference took place in Magdelene College,
Cambridge to celebrate Anthony’s eightieth birthday. Out of this meeting
two edited Festschrift volumes have been prepared. The fi rst provides articles
written for Anthony by his former students. That will appear under the edi-
torship of Lisa Nevett and James Whitley as a monograph of the McDonald
Institute at Cambridge: An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Trans-
formed (1976–2014).
In acknowledgement of his immense academic achievement this
second volume offers special papers contributed by friends and colleagues
refl ecting his wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek
Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and archaeology, Classical art his-
tory, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and regional
fi eld survey.
The intellectual circle of a great senior academic is refl ected in this
collection of essays that bring fresh insights into the history, art and
archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman Worlds.
John Bintliff, Keith Rutter
Edinburgh, December 2015
List of Contributors
Professor John Bintliff is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archae-
ology in the Institute of History, Leiden University and Honorary Profes-
sor at Edinburgh University.
Professor Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare
College, Cambridge, and A. G. Leventis Professor Emeritus, Faculty of
Classics, University of Cambridge.
Professor A. C. Cassio is Professor of Classical Philology in the University
of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’ Antichità.
Professor Bruno d’Agostino has been Professor of Etruscology and Greek
Archaeology in the University ‘l’Orientale’, Naples.
Professor François de Polignac is Director of Studies at the Section of Reli-
gious Studies, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
Dr Oliver Dickinson is Reader Emeritus in the Department of Classics and
Ancient History, Durham University.
Dr Jas Elsner is Professor of Late Antique Art at the University of Oxford
and Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology at
Corpus Christi College. He is also Visiting Professor of Art and Religion
at the University of Chicago and Senior Research Keeper, Empires of Faith
Project, British Museum.
Dr Sylvian Fachard is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of
Sciences of Antiquity at the University of Geneva.
Dr José M. González is Associate Professor of Classics at Duke University,
North Carolina.
Dr Tonio Hölscher is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at
Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg.
Dr Henry Hurst is Reader Emeritus in Classical Archaeology in the Faculty
of Classics, University of Cambridge.
Dr Ernst Künzl was until 2004 Head of the Roman Department at the
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz.
Dr Torsten Meissner is Senior Lecturer in Classics (Philology and Linguis-
tics) in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow
of Pembroke College.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix
Professor Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek
Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University;
he is also Director of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC.
Dr M. G. Palmieri is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Italian School of Archae-
ology, Athens.
Dr Federico Poole is Curator of the Egyptian Museum, Turin.
Professor Keith Rutter is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of
History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
Professor Alain Schnapp is Professor Emeritus of Greek Archaeology at
Université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, and former Director of the Institut
National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris.
Professor Annie Schnapp-Gourbeillon was Senior Lecturer in Greek History
and Archaeology in the University of Paris VIII.
Dr Rolf Michael Schneider is Full Professor for Classical Archaeology in the
Institut für Klassische Archäologie at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Munich.
Dr Nigel Spivey is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at the University
of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Dr Michael Squire is Reader in Classical Art at King’s College, London.
Dr Vladimir Stissi is Professor of Classical Archaeology and History of
Ancient Art at the University of Amsterdam and directs the Amsterdam
Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology.
List of Abbreviations
The abbreviations used for journals are listed here. Standard abbreviations
are used for classical authors and works.
AA Archäologischer Anzeiger, Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut
AAA Athens Annals of Archaeology
AIIN Annali dell’Istituto Italiano di Numismatica
AION Annali di Archeologia e Storia Antica. Napoli: Istituto
Universitario Orientale di Napoli
AJA American Journal of Archaeology
AJP American Journal of Philology
ANKH Revue d’Egyptologie et des Civilisations Africains/
Journal of Egyptology and African Civilisations
Ann. Ist. Annali dell’Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica
ArchDelt Archaiologikon Deltion
ASAtene Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle
Missioni Italiane in Oriente
ASNP Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
BABESCH BABESCH: Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archae-
ology (formerly Bulletin Antieke Beschaving)
BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique
BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London
BSA Annual of the British School at Athens
Bull. Com. Arch. B ullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale
in Roma
CQ Classical Quarterly
CRAI Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et
Belles-Lettres
GRBS Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
HSCPh Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
JDAI Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JWI Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Kokalos Kokalos: Studi Pubblicati dalla Sezione di Storia Antica
del Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali dell’Università di
Palermo
