Τhe Archaeological Museum of Thebes
Vassilios Aravantinos
City: Athens
Year: 2010
Publisher: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation
Series: Museums Cycle series
Description: Hardback, 400 p., b/w and colour ill., 35x27,5 cm
Abstract
The book is the twelfth volume in the Museums Cycle series, which is published every year by the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation. It focuses on the archaeological museum of Thebes and in general on Boeotia.
Contents
Foreword by the Minister of Culture and Tourism [11]
Foreword by Marianna J. Latsis [13]
Author’s preface [15]
“…and they were brought to the museum…”
The Thebes museum and the Boeotian antiquities [17]
A chronicle of the archaeological exploration in Boeotia [20]
The geomorphologic, historical and geographical context [27]
The dawn of Boeotian prehistory [31]
The first organised societies [34]
Boeotia in the Early Bronze Age (new ideas, crops and technologies) [41]
The Middle Helladic inhabitants of Boeotia: local people and newcomers [49]
Helladic princes in Cretan purple (the state, society and art in Early Mycenaean Boeotia) [54]
Citadels, palaces, archives (the heyday of Boeotia in the Mycenaean palatial period) [63]
From the palace to the city (the epic period in Boeotia)
After the Mycenaean palaces [125]
Geometric period [129]
Cities evolve and the league is established (the archaic period in Boeotia) [145]
From the victory of Plataea to the destruction of Thebes (the classical centuries in Boeotia)
Boeotia in the orbit of Sparta [231]
The course leading Thebes to hegemony and its tragic destruction [237]
Intellectual and artistic activity [243]
Macedonian successors and Roman polemarchs (the history and art of Boeotia in the Hellenistic period)
Historical review [307]
Art and culture in Hellenistic Boeotia [318]
Boeotia under the Roman empire
Historical events and imperial policy [337]
Society and art in the Roman period [348]
“The changing world…”: Christian monuments and byzantine artifacts in Thebes [361]
Myths and Heroes of Boeotia [375]
Bibliography [393]
Comments
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