The First Western Greeks
The First Western Greeks
Out of Print
The purpose of this book is to acquaint a wider audience with an archaeological project that could hardly be more revolutionary: the effective discovery and excavation, from 1952 onwards, of the first Greek establishment in the West, Euboean Pithekoussai on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. This vast trading settlement is not at all typical of the Western colonial scene. Pithekoussi is very large and very early, and it marks the northern limit of Greek South Italy; furthermore, the earliest immigrants may not all have been Greek. This book about Pithekoussai and its implications is based on Giorgio Buchner's excavations there, which have revealed a variety of component sites so far without parallel in the contemporary Greek homeland. The cemetery, the acropolis dump and suburban industrial quarter each shed light on a different aspect of everyday life at one of the great crossroads of antiquity.
- This is the only published account of the Pithekoussai excavations
- The subject is of absolutely central concern to Greek historians and archaeologists
- Lively and interesting account that could appeal to the layman
Product details
December 1992Hardback
9780521308823
200 pages
224 × 144 × 16 mm
0.368kg
52 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print June 1996
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Part I. The Protagonist:
- 1. Mycenaean prologue
- 2. The Euboeans at home and abroad
- 3. Pithekoussai: and introduction
- Part II. Pithekoussai in the Second Half of the Eighth Century BC:
- 4. Pithekoussai: the cemetery in the Valle de San Montano
- 5. Pithekoussai: the non-funerary sites
- Part III. Interactions:
- 6. Pithekoussai: status and function
- 7. Campania, Latium vetus and Southern Etruria in the ninth and eighth centuries
- 8. Etruscan epilogue
- Notes on further reading
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography.
