On the Agora

The Evolution of a Public Space in Hellenistic and Roman Greece (C. 323 BC - 267 Ad)
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32671-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 398, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 837 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

On the Agora traces the evolution of the main public square of the Greek polis for the six centuries from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the height of the Roman Empire and the Herulian invasion of Greece in 267 AD. Drawing on literary, epigraphic and, especially, archaeological evidence, the book takes a comparative approach to consider how the layout and function of agoras in cities throughout Greece changed during centuries that witnessed far reaching transformations in culture, society and political life. The book challenges the popular view of the post-Classical agora as characterised by decline, makes important arguments about how we use evidence to understand ancient public spaces and proposes many new interpretations of individual sites.

Autoren/Hrsg.

P Dickenson, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Dickenson, Ph.D. (2012), University of Groningen, is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on public space, monuments and political culture in the post-Classical Greek city.