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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

BOOKS | 2011

Across: The Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC

Edited by Vasıf Şahoğlu & Peggy Sotirakopoulou Istanbul 2011

Across: The Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC

The book is the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Across: The Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC’ which took place at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum (Instanbul) from 24 May until 28 August 2011. The exhibition examined the relations between the civilisations in Western Anatolia and the nearby Cyclades in the Aegean during the third millennium BC, exploring the active interaction between them and revealing the connections and the elements that stand apart.

The Funerary Landscape at Knossos. A Diachronic Study of Minoan Burial Customs with Special Reference to the Warrior Graves

Madelaine Miller Oxford 2011

The Funerary Landscape at Knossos. A Diachronic Study of Minoan Burial Customs with Special Reference to the Warrior Graves During the last century’s archaeological investigations of the advanced Bronze Age culture maintained by the so-called Minoans on the island of Crete, a number of tombs dated to the Late Minoan period and containing weapons have been discovered in the surroundings of the site of Knossos. The tombs are not confined to a certain area or cemetery, but are rather dispersed around the Palace and town. Although they are characterised by their weapons, other artefacts – such as bronze vessels and certain pottery types – also distinguish these tombs. The tombs are of three types: chamber tombs with long dromoi, shaft graves and pit-caves.

Βρύσινας Ι – Μινωικά Εικαστικά Τοπία. Τα αγγεία με τις επίθετες πλαστικές μορφές από το Ιερό Κορυφής του Βρύσινα και η αναζήτηση του βάθους (Vrysinas I – Minoan Artistic Landscapes)

Iris Tzachili Athens 2011

Βρύσινας Ι – Μινωικά Εικαστικά Τοπία. Τα αγγεία με τις επίθετες πλαστικές μορφές από το Ιερό Κορυφής του Βρύσινα και η αναζήτηση του βάθους (Vrysinas I – Minoan Artistic Landscapes) The starting-point of this study is a series of vases from the Vrysinas Peak Sanctuary with applied plastic decoration representing landscapes, currently presented as unique to this site. There is also reference to the clay figurines with depictions of rocks, trees and animals from the same site. The finds, the methods of artistic representation and other similar Minoan finds are analysed, before moving on to other categories of Minoan artwork with representations of landscapes. There is extensive discussion of the concept of perspective, the quest for depth and the form this quest assumes in Minoan contexts.

Review of Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-modern

Foschia, L. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Foschia, L., 2011. Online review of W.G. Cavanagh, C. Gallou & M. Georgiadis (eds), Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-modern. Proceedings of the Conference held in Sparta, organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Nottingham, the 5th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the 5th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities 17–20 March 2005 (London 2009), Bryn