BOOK REVIEWS | 2012
Hamilakis, Y.
Antiquity
Hamilakis, Y., 2012. Review of Erik Hallager & Birgitta P. Hallager (eds), The Greek-Swedish excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square, Kastelli, Khania 1970–1987 and 2001. Volume IV. The Late Minoan IIIB:1 and IIIA:2 settlements (Stockholm 2011), Antiquity 86:334 (2012): 1240-1241.
Haris Koutelakis
Athens
Το παρόν βιβλίο, αποτελεί την τρίτη εκδοτική συνέχεια, μετά από εκείνο για την «Ιστορία της ενορίας και του χωριού Αγάπητος» και το δεύτερο με τίτλο «Τοπωνυμικά και Ονοματολογικά της νήσου Τήνου» (ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟΣ: ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΑ-ΜΕΣΑΙΩΝΙΚΑ, Βιβλίο Νο 1 και Νο 2 αντίστοιχα) με τα οποία εγκαινιάστηκε μια σειρά ειδικών δημοσιευμάτων που αφορούν την Ιστορία της Τήνου και απασχόλησαν τον συγγραφέα επί 36 συνεχή χρόνια.
Dimitra Kokkinidou
Thessaloniki
O λόγος περί γυναικών και ο λόγος των γυναικών ενυπάρχει στις αναπαραστάσεις του παρελθόντος, όσο και αν αποθαρρύνεται από την κατεστημένη έρευνα. Στο βιβλίο αυτό αποτιμάται η συμβολή των γυναικών στην αρχαιολογία με βάση το δίπτυχο της επιστημονικής και της έμφυλης ιδιότητάς τους.
Konstantinos Giannakos
Berlin
The finding of a sword of possible Mycenaean or Aegean origin of the Late Bronze Age era, at Hattuša, dated ca. 1420-1400 BC, inspired the present research, which deals with the exchange of technologies and know-how between the regions around the Aegean Sea, as derived from the archaeological evidence and the ancient Greek literature.
Peter Pavúk & Barbara Horejs
Wien
The volume intends to be not only a straightforward presentation of the Middle and Late Bronze Age pottery from Mainland Greece, including the islands of Aegina and Paros, stored in the Schachermeyr Collection at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, but also to offer an in-depth discussing on a selection of ralated topics.
Jorrit Kelder
Ancient West & East 11 (2012): 11-18.
This paper evaluates the evidence for horseback riding in Mycenaean Greece. This paper argues that horseback riding, which is widely held to be an Iron Age development (of especially the 9th and 8th centuries BC), was practised by members of the aristocracies throughout the eastern Mediterranean as early as the 13th century BC, and that the first cavalry can be identified around the same time in Mycenaean Greece and other regions in the eastern Mediterranean.
Athanasia Kanta (with contributions by Anastasia Tzigounaki, Louis Godart, Germana Pecoraro, Demetra Mylona & Alexia Speliotopoulou)
Heraklion
In 1982 a short joint survey of the Amari valley took place as a co-operation between the University of Naples-Federico II and the Greek Archaeological Service. The team was led by Dr. Yiannis Tzedhakis, then Director of Classical and Prehistoric Antiquities at the Greek Ministry of Culture and Professor Luis Godart of the University of Naples.
Bernhard Steinmann
Wiesbaden
Bernhard Steinmann widmet sich in seiner Untersuchung Waffengräbern der minoischen und mykenischen Hochkulturen aus dem 20. bis 12. Jahrhundert v.Chr. Zu den typischen Grabbeigaben gehören hier vor allem Waffen, die das Interesse der Elite spiegeln, ihre kriegerische Tüchtigkeit zu betonen.
Edited by Gerald Cadogan, Maria Iacovou, Katerina Kopaka & James Whitley
London
How do the cultures of Crete and Cyprus, the two great islands of the eastern Mediterranean, compare in their history and development from the 3rd millennium to the 1st millennium BC? What was similar and what was different in their social and political, economic and technological, and religious and mortuary practices and behaviours, and in the natural settings and choices of places for settlements?
Gartziou-Tatti, A.
Kernos
Gartziou-Tatti, A., 2012. Review of H.V. Harissis and A.V. Harissis, Apiculture in the Prehistoric Aegean. Minoan and Mycenaean Symbols Revisited (Oxford 2009), Kernos 25: 334-335.
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Mylonopoulos, J.
Kernos
Mylonopoulos, J., 2012. Review of C. Doyen, Poséidon souverain. Contribution à l’histoire religieuse de la Grèce mycénienne et archaïque (Bruxelles 2011), Kernos 25: 336-340.
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Kennell, S.A.H.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Kennell, S.A.H., 2012. Online review of S. Samida, Heinrich Schliemann. UTB Profile (Tübingen 2012), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.12.25.
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Katie Demakopoulou & Nicoletta Divari-Valakou
Athens
A brief guide of the archaeological site of Midea, with many colour figures of recent excavations and finds. The acropolis of Midea is the third most important Mycenaean acropolis of Argolis.
Costis Davaras & Philip P. Betancourt
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The publication of the Hagia Photia Cemetery is planned in three volumes. The first volume, which has already been published (Davaras and Betancourt 2004), presented the tomb groups and the architecture. The second volume about the excavation of the Hagia Photia cemetery focuses on the pottery. The third volume will present the obsidian, stone finds, metal objects, and other discoveries.
Edited by Polyxeni Adam-Veleni & Evangelia Stefani
Thessaloniki
Phoenicians and Greeks: two seafaring peoples who left clear marks on the Mediterranean routes. Their presence affected the fate of many other peoples and opened roads of trade and culture. Which were the meeting points of these rulers of the waves? And which their conflicting?
