Miles - Autopsy in Athens: Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica

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Autopsy in Athens : recent archaeological research on Athens and Attica / edited by Margaret M. Miles.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-78297-856-5 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-78297-857-2 (digital) 1. Athens (Greece)--Antiquities. 2. Attike (Greece)-
Antiquities. 3. Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Athens. 4. Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Attike. 5. Salvage archaeology
-Greece--Athens. 6. Salvage archaeology--Greece--Attike. 7. Social archaeology--Greece--Athens. 8. Social archaeology--Greece
-Attike. I. Miles, Margaret M.
DF275.A88 2015
938.5--dc23

2015014203

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Front cover: Temple of Poseidon, Sounion. (Photograph: M. M. Miles)

Contents

(Margaret M. Miles)

Nancy L. Klein

Barbara Tsakirgis

Jenifer Neils, Rachel Sternberg and Derek Reinbold

Carol L. Lawton

Jessica Lamont

Brian A. Martens

Jacob Morton

Rachel Kousser

Angele Rosenberg-Dimitracopoulou

Johanna Best

Jessica Paga

Kristian Lorenzo

Sylvian Fachard and Daniele Pirisino

Marya Fisher

Margaret M. Miles

List of Contributors

JOHANNA BEST is a Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, where she is writing a dissertation for Bryn Mawr College. Her research focuses on the roadside religious sites in Athens and Attica, landscape, and the history of religion. She has excavated at Nemea and Despotiko in Greece.

SYLVIAN FACHARD is a Swiss National Science Foundation Senior Research Associate at the University of Geneva. He was the Assistant director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (20022011) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World (Brown University). He has conducted extensive research in Eretria and its territory, and published Eretria XXI (2012), which focuses on the defense of the chora. His current research project is about the Attic borderlands.

MARYA FISHER is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and a Regular Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, writing a dissertation which examines the intersection of architecture and cult in the non-peripteral temples of South Italy and Sicily. She is currently involved in field projects in Selinunte, Sicily, and Samothrace, Greece, working on architectural documentation and analysis.

NANCY KLEIN is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University. Her research explores the relationship of architecture and society in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Crete, the development of the Doric order, and the architecture of the Athenian Acropolis in the Archaic and early Classical periods.

RACHEL KOUSSER is Professor at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. Her first book, Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture: The allure of the Classical was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. Her current monograph, The afterlives of monumental sculptures in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Interaction, transformation, destruction is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

JESSICA LAMONT is completing a Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation focuses on healing cults in Athens in the late 5th century BC. She has held fellowships from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. She has taught at the College Year in Athens (CYA), and has excavated at Pylos-Iklaina, the Athenian Agora, Corinth, and Molyvoti (Thrace).

CAROL LAWTON is Professor of Art History and Classical Studies at Lawrence University. She is the author of Attic Document Reliefs: Art and Politics in Ancient Athens (Oxford 1995) and articles on document and votive reliefs. Her volume on the votive reliefs from the excavations of the Athenian Agora is forthcoming.

KRISTIAN LORENZO is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Richmond. He held an ACM-Mellon Post-doctoral fellowship in Classical Archaeology at Monmouth College. His research focuses on dedications for victories at sea, the cross-cultural adaptation of victory imagery, and early imperial usage of traditional commemorative practices for propagandistic purposes. He has excavated at Old Fort Niagara in western New York, the town of Salemi, Sicily, the Athenian Agora and ancient Corinth.

BRIAN A. MARTENS is a DPhil candidate in classical archaeology at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the production, uses, and reuses of marble divine statuettes in Roman and late antique Greece, with materials from the Athenian Agora as a case study for understanding wider regional practices. He is a supervisor at the Agora Excavations, where he has worked since 2008.

MARGARET M. MILES is Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of California, Irvine. She served as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens during 20082014. Her publications include a study of the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous (Hesperia 1989), The Athenian Agora XXXI: The City Eleusinion (1998), Art as Plunder: the Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property (Cambridge, 2008), and (as Editor) Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited (2011).

JACOB MORTON is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Group in Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He is currently writing his dissertation, which explores the effects of the initial Roman military presence in Greece, while continuing research on the practicalities of Greek religion.

JENIFER NEILS is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University, and currently the Chair of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She has written extensively on Attic art and archaeology, including Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (1992), The Parthenon Frieze (2001) and The Parthenon from Antiquity to the Present (co-author and editor, 2005).

JESSICA PAGA is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is appointed in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities as well as the Classics Department. Her research focuses on Greek architecture, particularly of the Archaic and Classical periods, and ritual theory and democratic theory. She is a Senior Archaeologist with the Samothrace Excavations, where she has worked since 2012. She joins the Department of Classics at The College of William & Mary in 2015.