| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 238 pages : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Oxford monographs on classical archaeology |
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Oxford monographs on classical archaeology.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Types of fortification -- City walls in the written record and the visual arts -- Preservation of city walls -- The archaeology of city walls -- Dating city walls -- Topographical and architectural analysis -- The prevalence of city walls in early Iron Age and archaic Greece -- Catalogue of city walls |
| Summary |
In this fully illustrated study, Rune Frederiksen assembles all archaeological and written sources for city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier. Frederiksen discusses the types of fortified settlement and the topography of urban fortification, and also the preservation of structures from early settlements. He also presents an architectural history of Greek fortification walls before the Classical period, and makes the intriguing observation that early monumental architecture developed just as much in fortifications as it did in early temples. This underlines the importance of the secular sphere for the development of early communities across the Greek world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
City walls -- Greece -- History
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City walls.
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Stadtbefestigung
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Stadtmauer.
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Stadsmurar -- historia -- Grekland -- antiken.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057074
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| Subject |
Greece.
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Griechenland Altertum
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Griechenland (Altertum)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191808289 |
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0191808288 |
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