The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides an overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present. Charles Brian Rose traces the social and economic development of the city and related sites in the Troad, as well as the development of its civic and religious centers from the Bronze Age through the early Christian period, with a focus on the settlements of Greek and Roman date. Along the way, he reconsiders the circumstances of the Trojan War and chronicles Troy's gradual development into a Homeric tourist destination and the adoption of Trojan ancestry by most nation-states in medieval Europe.
- Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the archaeology of Troy, from the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century discoveries through the most recent excavations
- The author has co-directed the Troy excavations from 1988 to the present, making him the foremost authority on the subject
- This richly illustrated text, with over 150 black and white images and 29 color plates, will make Trojan history and archaeology accessible and useful to both student and expert
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'This is the book that everyone who has a strong interest in the history of ancient Troy or Ilion has been waiting for.' Oliver Dickinson, Anglo-Hellenic Review

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Product details
- Date Published: December 2017
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108446259
- length: 446 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 178 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.87kg
- contains: 158 b/w illus. 29 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Troy in the Bronze Age
2. Troy during the Archaic Period
3. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley: the Polyxena sarcophagus
4. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley II: the child's sarcophagus
5. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley III: the Dedetepe tumulus
6. The tombs of the Granicus River Valley IV: the Çan sarcophagus
7. Ilion, Athens, and Sigeion during the 5th and 4th centuries BC
8. Ilion in the early Hellenistic period
9. The West Sanctuary during the Hellenistic period
10. Late Hellenistic and early imperial Ilion
11. From the Flavians to the Byzantines
12. The concept of Troy after antiquity.
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Author
Charles Brian Rose, University of Pennsylvania
Charles Brian Rose is James B. Pritchard Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section of the Penn Museum. Between 1988 and 2012 he was Head of Post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy and English language editor of Studia Troica, the annual journal of the Troy excavations. He is currently director of the Gordion Excavation Project in central Turkey. He has served as an Academic Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America, as well as its First Vice-President and President, and as Deputy Director of the Penn Museum. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Charles Brian Rose is the author of Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period (Cambridge, 1997) and the co-editor (with Gareth Darbyshire) of The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion (2011).