Cities Called Athens

Kevin F. Daly is associate professor of classics at Bucknell University.Lee Ann Riccardi is professor of art history and classical studies at the College of New Jersey.

The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume is dedicated to John McK. Camp II, to acknowledge the extraordinary impact he has had on the field of Greek archaeology through his work in the Athenian Agora, as a scholar of ancient Greece, and as Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies. The contributors' work represents current research by the latest generation of scholars with ties to Athens. All of the contributors were students of Professor Camp in Greece, and their essays are dedicated to him in gratitude for his profound influence on their lives and careers.

ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionKevin F. Daly & Lee Ann RiccardiChapter 1 Family Meals: Banquet Imagery on Classical Athenian Funerary ReliefsWendy E. ClostermanChapter 2: On When and Where to Find Athenian FortsKevin F. DalyChapter 3: Securing the Sacred: The Accessibility and Control of Attic SanctuariesLaura GawlinskiChapter 4: The Eagle of Zeus in Greek Art and LiteratureSeán HemingwayChapter 5: Solon's Property Classes on the Athenian Acropolis? A Reconsideration of IG 13.831 and Ath. Pol. 7.4Catherine M. KeeslingChapter 6: The Architecture of the Athenian Acropolis before Perikles: The Life and Death of the Small Limestone BuildingsNancy L. KleinChapter 7 "To Market, To Market": Pottery, the Individual and Trade in AthensElizabeth M. Langridge-NotiChapter 8: The Transport Amphoras at Koroni: Contribution to the Historical Narrative and Economic History of the Early Hellenistic AegeanMark L. LawallChapter 9: Drinking Cups and the Symposium at Athens in the Archaic and Classical PeriodsKathleen M. LynchChapter 10: Three Late Medieval Kilns from the Athenian AgoraCamilla MacKayChapter 11: "There will be blood...": The Cult of Artemis Tauropolos at Halai AraphenidesJeremy McInerneyChapter 12: Homage & Abuse: Three Portraits of Roman Women from the Athenian AgoraLee Ann RiccardiChapter 13: Polis Inscriptions and Jurors in Fourth-century AthensM. B. RichardsonChapter 14: Sophokles' Philoktetes: The Cult of Herakles DramatizedChristina A. SaloweyBibliographyIndexAbout the Contributors